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: 3255
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2000
Pagerank: 0.00012035449
Overall Rank: 1,134 | 92.23%
DOI: 10.1145/342009.335423

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Rakesh Agrawal (IBM)
2. Edward L. Wimmers (IBM)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{agrawal_sigmod00,
        title = {{A Framework for Expressing and Combining Preferences}},
        author = {Agrawal, Rakesh and Wimmers, Edward L.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '00},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/342009.335423},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/342009.335423},
        year = {2000}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 14 of 14 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
407	PREFER: A System for the Efficient Execution of Multiparametric Ranked Queries	2001	SIGMOD	0.00019021441
656	Foundations of Preferences in Database Systems	2002	VLDB	0.00015258172
792	Finding k-Dominant Skylines in High Dimensional Space	2006	SIGMOD	0.00013979615
827	Minimal Probing: Supporting Expensive Predicates for Top-k Queries	2002	SIGMOD	0.00013769938
1,338	Preference SQL - Design, Implementation, Experiences	2002	VLDB	0.00011117197
2,516	Stratified Computation of Skylines with Partially-Ordered Domains	2005	SIGMOD	8.4773324e-05
3,728	Querying Structured Text in an XML Database	2003	SIGMOD	7.1685118e-05
3,984	Learning User Preferences By Adaptive Pairwise Comparison	2015	VLDB	6.9739437e-05
4,622	Context-Sensitive Ranking	2006	SIGMOD	6.6014783e-05
5,164	Efficient Approximation of Optimization Queries Under Parametric Aggregation Constraints	2003	VLDB	6.3372067e-05
5,517	Scalable Ranked Publish/Subscribe	2008	VLDB	6.1889819e-05
7,584	Database Support for Matching: Limitations and Opportunities	2006	SIGMOD	5.5913983e-05
8,024	Progressive Join Algorithms Considering User Preference	2021	CIDR	5.5052493e-05
8,332	Sideway Value Algebra for Object-Relational Databases	2002	VLDB	5.4520616e-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
402	Fuzzy Queries in Multimedia Database Systems	1998	PODS	0.00019072958

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