A Framework for Expressing and Combining Preferences

Summary: Formal framework to express and combine user preferences for ranking and filtering data. Generic combine operator parameterized by a value function enables composing preferences with closure, enabling personalization and relational implementation. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3193
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2000
Pagerank: 0.00014217619
Overall Rank: 1,080 | 92.49%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Rakesh Agrawal
2. Edward L. Wimmers

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 14 of 14 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
465	PREFER: A System for the Efficient Execution of Multiparametric Ranked Queries	2001	SIGMOD	0.00022455702
707	Foundations of Preferences in Database Systems	2002	VLDB	0.00017782998
914	Finding k-Dominant Skylines in High Dimensional Space	2006	SIGMOD	0.00015387584
1,030	Preference SQL - Design, Implementation, Experiences	2002	VLDB	0.00014557349
1,096	Minimal Probing: Supporting Expensive Predicates for Top-k Queries	2002	SIGMOD	0.00014120512
2,866	Stratified Computation of Skylines with Partially-Ordered Domains	2005	SIGMOD	7.9844444e-05
3,667	Querying Structured Text in an XML Database	2003	SIGMOD	6.8602249e-05
4,564	Learning User Preferences By Adaptive Pairwise Comparison	2015	VLDB	6.0819005e-05
4,637	Context-Sensitive Ranking	2006	SIGMOD	6.0303293e-05
5,299	Efficient Approximation of Optimization Queries Under Parametric Aggregation Constraints	2003	VLDB	5.5796719e-05
5,391	Scalable Ranked Publish/Subscribe	2008	VLDB	5.533552e-05
7,190	Database Support for Matching: Limitations and Opportunities	2006	SIGMOD	4.8051876e-05
7,840	Progressive Join Algorithms Considering User Preference	2021	CIDR	4.6371736e-05
7,899	Sideway Value Algebra for Object-Relational Databases	2002	VLDB	4.6226726e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
169	Fuzzy Queries in Multimedia Database Systems	1998	PODS	0.00038895438

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