Quality is in the Eye of the Beholder: Towards User-Centric Web-Databases

Summary: Explores user-centric adaptation of Quality Contracts (QCs) in web-databases to influence QoS/QoD and user satisfaction. A demo uses an interactive game where users continually reconfigure QCs against system-adopted policies, revealing how admission control and scheduling choices shape performance. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4007
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2007
Pagerank: 5.7850528e-05
Overall Rank: 6,745 | 53.73%
DOI: 10.1145/1247480.1247622

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Authors

1. Huiming Qu (University of Pittsburgh)
2. Jie Xu (University of Pittsburgh)
3. Alexandros Labrinidis (University of Pittsburgh)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{qu_sigmod07,
        title = {{Quality is in the Eye of the Beholder: Towards User-Centric Web-Databases}},
        author = {Qu, Huiming and Xu, Jie and Labrinidis, Alexandros},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '07},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1247480.1247622},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1247480.1247622},
        year = {2007}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,087	Less is More: Selecting Sources Wisely for Integration	2013	VLDB	6.9141684e-05

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