Call to Order: A Hierarchical Browsing Approach to Eliciting Users' Preference

Summary: Hierarchical browsing uses order-based skyline representatives to reveal user preferences for ranking queries. A dendrogram of skyline objects, with visualization, lets users refine weights; experiments show feasibility and efficiency. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4292
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2010
Pagerank: 6.0500409e-05
Overall Rank: 5,887 | 59.62%
DOI: 10.1145/1807167.1807173

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Feng Zhao (National University of Singapore)
2. Gautam Das (University of Texas)
3. Kian-Lee Tan (National University of Singapore)
4. Anthony K. H. Tung (National University of Singapore)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{zhao_sigmod10,
        title = {{Call to Order: A Hierarchical Browsing Approach to Eliciting Users' Preference}},
        author = {Zhao, Feng and Das, Gautam and Tan, Kian-Lee and Tung, Anthony K. H.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '10},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1807167.1807173},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1807167.1807173},
        year = {2010}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,944	k-Hit Query: Top-k Query with Probabilistic Utility Function	2015	SIGMOD	6.0328749e-05
12,206	Generating Top-k Packages via Preference Elicitation	2014	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,276	IPS: An Interactive Package Configuration System for Trip Planning	2013	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 15 of 15 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2	R-Trees: A Dynamic Index Structure For Spatial Searching	1984	SIGMOD	0.0020210012
5	Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware [Extended Abstract]	2001	PODS	0.0010828372
88	Efficient and Effective Clustering Methods for Spatial Data Mining	1994	VLDB	0.00035240327
308	Shooting Stars in the Sky: An Online Algorithm for Skyline Queries	2002	VLDB	0.00021787597
314	Making Database Systems Usable	2007	SIGMOD	0.00021574636
623	An Optimal and Progressive Algorithm for Skyline Queries	2003	SIGMOD	0.00015684963
656	Foundations of Preferences in Database Systems	2002	VLDB	0.00015258172
792	Finding k-Dominant Skylines in High Dimensional Space	2006	SIGMOD	0.00013979615
1,185	Maximal Vector Computation in Large Data Sets	2005	VLDB	0.00011772712
1,938	Discovering Relative Importance of Skyline Attributes	2009	VLDB	9.4514785e-05
2,730	DADA: A Data Cube for Dominant Relationship Analysis	2006	SIGMOD	8.1977425e-05
3,409	Approaching the Skyline in Z Order	2007	VLDB	7.4368546e-05
6,616	Categorical Skylines for Streaming Data	2008	SIGMOD	5.8214223e-05
12,498	Minimizing the Communication Cost for Continuous Skyline Maintenance	2009	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,672	On Dominating Your Neighborhood Profitably	2007	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Semantically Similar Papers

#	Overall Rank	Paper	Year	Venue
1	1,938	Discovering Relative Importance of Skyline Attributes	2009	VLDB
2	8,378	Discovering the Skyline of Web Databases	2016	VLDB
3	6,815	Supporting Ranking and Clustering as Generalized Order-By and Group-By	2007	SIGMOD
4	407	PREFER: A System for the Efficient Execution of Multiparametric Ranked Queries	2001	SIGMOD
5	2,427	Processing a Large Number of Continuous Preference Top-k Queries	2012	SIGMOD
6	2,516	Stratified Computation of Skylines with Partially-Ordered Domains	2005	SIGMOD
7	1,526	Ordering the Attributes of Query Results	2006	SIGMOD
8	3,881	Using Trees to Depict a Forest	2009	VLDB
9	5,409	Efficient Skyline Querying with Variable User Preferences on Nominal Attributes	2008	VLDB
10	1,725	Addressing Diverse User Preferences in SQL-Query-Result Navigation	2007	SIGMOD