Context-Sensitive Ranking

Summary: Proposes context-sensitive ranking by reconciling cyclic preferences into contextual orders. Off-line preprocessing stores a few typical orders per context for fast query-time ranking; includes formal definitions, algorithms, and experimental validation. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3768
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2006
Pagerank: 6.0246358e-05
Overall Rank: 4,637 | 67.78%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,606	Addressing Diverse User Preferences in SQL-Query-Result Navigation	2007	SIGMOD	0.00011175693
5,558	On Obtaining Stable Rankings	2019	VLDB	5.4375292e-05
8,505	ARCube: Supporting Ranking Aggregate Queries in Partially Materialized Data Cubes	2008	SIGMOD	4.4915213e-05
9,340	Context-sensitive Ranking for Document Retrieval	2011	SIGMOD	4.351469e-05
12,396	Dynamic Active Probing of Helpdesk Databases	2008	VLDB	4.1905499e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 13 of 13 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
8	Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware [Extended Abstract]	2001	PODS	0.0015436578
13	Mining Association Rules between Sets of Items in Large Databases	1993	SIGMOD	0.0010863639
73	XRANK: Ranked Keyword Search over XML Documents	2003	SIGMOD	0.0005840064
320	ObjectRank: Authority-Based Keyword Search in Databases	2004	VLDB	0.00027574254
427	Automated Ranking of Database Query Results	2003	CIDR	0.0002350378
706	Foundations of Preferences in Database Systems	2002	VLDB	0.00017777858
710	Efficient Similarity Search and Classification via Rank Aggregation	2003	SIGMOD	0.00017727016
746	An Optimal and Progressive Algorithm for Skyline Queries	2003	SIGMOD	0.00017212135
1,079	A Framework for Expressing and Combining Preferences	2000	SIGMOD	0.00014219622
1,633	Relational link-based ranking	2004	VLDB	0.00011062304
1,996	Probabilistic Ranking of Database Query Results	2004	VLDB	9.8374939e-05
2,384	Comparing and Aggregating Rankings with Ties	2004	PODS	8.9177815e-05
7,661	Constrained Optimalities in Query Personalization	2005	SIGMOD	4.6814295e-05

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