Efficient Evaluation of Multiple Preference Queries

• Main Authors: LEONG, Hou U, MAMAOULIS, Nikos, MOURATIDIS, Kyriakos
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2009
• Subjects: Experimental evaluation; Individual preference; Iterative process; ITS evaluation; Marriage problems; Multiple user; Preference queries; Single object; Synthetic and real data; Computer Sciences; Databases and Information Systems
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/456; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/1455/viewcontent/ICDE09_MultiPref.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Consider multiple users searching for a hotel room, based on size, cost, distance to the beach, etc. Users may have variable preferences expressed by different weights on the attributes of the searched objects. Although individual preference queries can be evaluated by selecting the object in the da...