IQR: An Interactive Query Relaxation System for the Empty-Answer Problem
Summary: IQR is an interactive relaxation system for empty-answer queries, proposing one relaxation at a time under an optimization objective until a non-empty answer is found. Probabilistic user-acceptance guides relaxations toward diverse goals (effort, profit) with exact/approximate solvers, validated on large real datasets. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Davide Mottin
- 2. Gautam Das
- 3. Alice Marascu
- 4. Themis Palpanas
- 5. Senjuti Basu Roy
- 6. Yannis Velegrakis
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| 427 | Automated Ranking of Database Query Results | 2003 | CIDR | 0.0002350378 |
| 3,204 | A Probabilistic Optimization Framework for the Empty-Answer Problem | 2013 | VLDB | 7.3884503e-05 |
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