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: 3830
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2006
Pagerank: 0.00010491673
Overall Rank: 1,526 | 89.54%
DOI: 10.1145/1142473.1142518

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Authors

1. Gautam Das (University of Texas)
2. Vagelis Hristidis (Florida International University)
3. Nishant Kapoor (University of Florida)
4. S. Sudarshan (Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{das_sigmod06,
        title = {{Ordering the Attributes of Query Results}},
        author = {Das, Gautam and Hristidis, Vagelis and Kapoor, Nishant and Sudarshan, S.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '06},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1142473.1142518},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1142473.1142518},
        year = {2006}
}

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1,725	Addressing Diverse User Preferences in SQL-Query-Result Navigation	2007	SIGMOD	9.9197083e-05
2,379	Structured Search Result Differentiation	2009	VLDB	8.666326e-05
2,784	Towards Keyword-Driven Analytical Processing	2007	SIGMOD	8.1271176e-05
2,946	Gestural Query Specification	2014	VLDB	7.93259e-05
3,521	Promotion Analysis in Multi-Dimensional Space	2009	VLDB	7.3501396e-05
4,046	Expressive Query Construction through Direct Manipulation of Nested Relational Results	2016	SIGMOD	6.9392871e-05
5,221	Query Biased Snippet Generation in XML Search	2008	SIGMOD	6.310752e-05
6,883	Facet Discovery for Structured Web Search: A Query-log Mining Approach	2011	SIGMOD	5.7468523e-05
12,348	Generating Exact- and Ranked Partially-Matched Answers to Questions in Advertisements	2012	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,376	MOBIES: Mobile-Interface Enhancement Service for Hidden Web Database	2011	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,561	Helping Satisfy Multiple Objectives During a Service Desk Conversation	2008	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,620	QUIC: Handling Query Imprecision & Data Incompleteness in Autonomous Databases	2007	CIDR	5.093636e-05
12,658	CallAssist: Helping Call Center Agents in Preference Elicitation	2007	VLDB	5.093636e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5	Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware [Extended Abstract]	2001	PODS	0.0010828372
190	Locally Adaptive Dimensionality Reduction for Indexing Large Time Series Databases	2001	SIGMOD	0.00026105472
285	ObjectRank: Authority-Based Keyword Search in Databases	2004	VLDB	0.00022365284
407	PREFER: A System for the Efficient Execution of Multiparametric Ranked Queries	2001	SIGMOD	0.00019021441
466	Automated Ranking of Database Query Results	2003	CIDR	0.00018014467
483	FastMap: A Fast Algorithm for Indexing, Data-Mining and Visualization of Traditional and Multimedia Datasets	1995	SIGMOD	0.00017756569
1,844	Probabilistic Ranking of Database Query Results	2004	VLDB	9.6314187e-05
2,204	Automatic Categorization of Query Results	2004	SIGMOD	8.959723e-05
2,652	Comparing and Aggregating Rankings with Ties	2004	PODS	8.291138e-05

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