Qualified Answers That Reflect User Needs and Preferences

Summary: Formalizes user needs and preferences via a lattice of domain-independent values with domain-specific constraints, automatically embedded into relational and deductive databases as annotated. Query answering operates on the annotated database, producing answers at multiple preference levels; preferences can be changed without editing data, enabling scalable handling of large DNA data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8202
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1994
Pagerank: 5.9695016e-05
Overall Rank: 4,726 | 67.13%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Terry Gaasterland
2. Jorge Lobo

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
707	Foundations of Preferences in Database Systems	2002	VLDB	0.00017782998

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,166	Unfounded Sets and Well-Founded Semantics for General Logic Programs	1988	PODS	0.00013554968

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