Ordering the Attributes of Query Results

Summary: Automates selecting informative attributes for ranked results with many attributes via attribute-usefulness optimization. Proposes a Split-Pane hybrid that merges top attributes from variants; experiments and a user study show improved explanations. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3769
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2006
Pagerank: 0.00013001902
Overall Rank: 1,258 | 91.26%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 13 of 13 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,606	Addressing Diverse User Preferences in SQL-Query-Result Navigation	2007	SIGMOD	0.00011175693
1,664	Structured Search Result Differentiation	2009	VLDB	0.0001096091
2,801	Towards Keyword-Driven Analytical Processing	2007	SIGMOD	8.1074407e-05
3,192	Gestural Query Specification	2014	VLDB	7.4085087e-05
3,820	Promotion Analysis in Multi-Dimensional Space	2009	VLDB	6.7266035e-05
4,361	Expressive Query Construction through Direct Manipulation of Nested Relational Results	2016	SIGMOD	6.2482689e-05
5,549	Query Biased Snippet Generation in XML Search	2008	SIGMOD	5.4440282e-05
6,844	Facet Discovery for Structured Web Search: A Query-log Mining Approach	2011	SIGMOD	4.9045718e-05
12,160	Generating Exact- and Ranked Partially-Matched Answers to Questions in Advertisements	2012	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
12,189	MOBIES: Mobile-Interface Enhancement Service for Hidden Web Database	2011	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
12,376	Helping Satisfy Multiple Objectives During a Service Desk Conversation	2008	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
12,435	QUIC: Handling Query Imprecision & Data Incompleteness in Autonomous Databases	2007	CIDR	4.1905499e-05
12,473	CallAssist: Helping Call Center Agents in Preference Elicitation	2007	VLDB	4.1905499e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 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
243	Locally Adaptive Dimensionality Reduction for Indexing Large Time Series Databases	2001	SIGMOD	0.00031052437
320	ObjectRank: Authority-Based Keyword Search in Databases	2004	VLDB	0.00027574254
427	Automated Ranking of Database Query Results	2003	CIDR	0.0002350378
464	PREFER: A System for the Efficient Execution of Multiparametric Ranked Queries	2001	SIGMOD	0.00022476798
471	FastMap: A Fast Algorithm for Indexing, Data-Mining and Visualization of Traditional and Multimedia Datasets	1995	SIGMOD	0.00022348285
1,996	Probabilistic Ranking of Database Query Results	2004	VLDB	9.8374939e-05
2,101	Automatic Categorization of Query Results	2004	SIGMOD	9.5406958e-05
2,384	Comparing and Aggregating Rankings with Ties	2004	PODS	8.9177815e-05

Semantically Similar Papers

Overall Rank	Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
12,199	Efficient Rank Join with Aggregation Constraints	2011	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
4,060	On the Complexity of Query Result Diversification	2013	VLDB	6.4840236e-05
74	Efficient Query Evaluation on Probabilistic Databases	2004	VLDB	0.00057797415
9,065	Keyword Querying and Ranking in Databases	2009	VLDB	4.3992275e-05
491	Query by Output	2009	SIGMOD	0.00021960753
6,656	Supporting Ranking and Clustering as Generalized Order-By and Group-By	2007	SIGMOD	4.9691233e-05
1,612	A Unified Approach to Ranking in Probabilistic Databases	2009	VLDB	0.00011142757
12,119	Optimal Top-k Generation of Attribute Combinations based on Ranked Lists	2012	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
427	Automated Ranking of Database Query Results	2003	CIDR	0.0002350378
1,996	Probabilistic Ranking of Database Query Results	2004	VLDB	9.8374939e-05