A Query Engine for Probabilistic Preferences

Summary: Practical query engine for probabilistic preferences in relational data, supporting Repeated Insertion Model (RIM), a Mallows generalization. Novel conjunctive-query inference for RIM with shared computation, outperforming state-of-the-art solvers and delivering clear practical gains in experiments. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5631
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2018
Pagerank: 5.3766157e-05
Overall Rank: 8,743 | 40.02%
DOI: 10.1145/3183713.3196923

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Uzi Cohen (Technion)
2. Batya Kenig (Technion)
3. Haoyue Ping (Drexel University)
4. Benny Kimelfeld (Technion)
5. Julia Stoyanovich (Drexel University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{cohen_sigmod18,
        title = {{A Query Engine for Probabilistic Preferences}},
        author = {Cohen, Uzi and Kenig, Batya and Ping, Haoyue and Kimelfeld, Benny and Stoyanovich, Julia},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '18},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3183713.3196923},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3183713.3196923},
        year = {2018}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
11,530	The Gibbs–Rand Model	2022	PODS	5.093636e-05
11,837	Query Evaluation in Election Databases	2019	PODS	5.093636e-05
13,483	Supporting Hard Queries over Probabilistic Preferences	2020	VLDB	-

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
50	Efficient Query Evaluation on Probabilistic Databases	2004	VLDB	0.00043596705
656	Foundations of Preferences in Database Systems	2002	VLDB	0.00015258172
800	The LLUNATIC Data-Cleaning Framework	2013	VLDB	0.00013911223
7,642	A System for Management and Analysis of Preference Data	2014	VLDB	5.5765908e-05
8,745	Querying Probabilistic Preferences in Databases	2017	PODS	5.3766157e-05

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