MindReader: Querying databases through multiple examples

Summary: MindReader lets users express queries via examples to infer a user-specific distance over attributes and correlations. Formulated as a minimization with no heuristics; first to handle diagonal queries, experiments show fast, accurate estimation. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8491
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1998
Pagerank: 0.00011141103
Overall Rank: 1,613 | 88.80%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 12 of 12 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,192	Gestural Query Specification	2014	VLDB	7.4085087e-05
3,574	Efficient k-NN Search on Vertically Decomposed Data	2002	SIGMOD	6.9520978e-05
3,669	FALCON: Feedback Adaptive Loop for Content-Based Retrieval	2000	VLDB	6.8569375e-05
5,354	FeedbackBypass: A New Approach to Interactive Similarity Query Processing	2001	VLDB	5.5526135e-05
5,896	GestureQuery: A Multitouch Database Query Interface	2013	VLDB	5.2814794e-05
6,235	New Trends on Exploratory Methods for Data Analytics	2017	VLDB	5.1386078e-05
7,856	Adaptable Similarity Search using Non-Relevant Information	2002	VLDB	4.6304319e-05
8,127	Similarity Search for Adaptive Ellipsoid Queries Using Spatial Transformation	2001	VLDB	4.5757206e-05
8,338	Exploring the Data Wilderness through Examples	2019	SIGMOD	4.538469e-05
8,614	Diversity based Relevance Feedback for Time Series Search	2014	VLDB	4.4806551e-05
8,694	SeeSaw: Interactive Ad-hoc Search Over Image Databases	2023	SIGMOD	4.4615833e-05
9,007	Qcluster: Relevance Feedback Using Adaptive Clustering for Content-Based Image Retrieval	2003	SIGMOD	4.4066007e-05

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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
6	The R*-tree: An Efficient and Robust Access Method for Points and Rectangles	1990	SIGMOD	0.0016113151
129	The X-tree: An Index Structure for High-Dimensional Data	1996	VLDB	0.00044255276
301	The SR-tree: An Index Structure for High-Dimensional Nearest Neighbor Queries	1997	SIGMOD	0.00028396714
471	FastMap: A Fast Algorithm for Indexing, Data-Mining and Visualization of Traditional and Multimedia Datasets	1995	SIGMOD	0.00022348285
1,111	Beyond Uniformity and Independence : Analysis of R-trees Using the Concept of Fractal Dimension	1994	PODS	0.0001389881
1,755	Efficient User-Adaptable Similarity Search in Large Multimedia Databases	1997	VLDB	0.00010661725

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