Preference Queries over Taxonomic Domains

Summary: Logic-based preferences over relational data with taxonomic domains; two operators enforce transitivity and specificity. Cannot achieve both; identifies two viable alternatives and a heuristic to pick best results; validated on synthetic and real data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 12557
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2021
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 11,701 | 19.73%
DOI: 10.14778/3467861.3467874

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Authors

1. Paolo Ciaccia (University of Bologna)
2. Davide Martinenghi (Politecnico di Milano)
3. Riccardo Torlone (Roma Tre University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{ciaccia_vldb21,
        title = {{Preference Queries over Taxonomic Domains}},
        author = {Ciaccia, Paolo and Martinenghi, Davide and Torlone, Riccardo},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '21},
        volume = {14},
        number = {10},
        pages = {1859--1871},
        doi = {10.14778/3467861.3467874},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3467861.3467874},
        year = {2021}
}

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
656	Foundations of Preferences in Database Systems	2002	VLDB	0.00015258172
746	Efficiently Answering Reachability Queries on Very Large Directed Graphs	2008	SIGMOD	0.00014402233
792	Finding k-Dominant Skylines in High Dimensional Space	2006	SIGMOD	0.00013979615

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