Maximum Rank Query

• Main Authors: MOURATIDIS, Kyriakos, ZHANG, Jilian, Hwee Hwa PANG
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: Benchmarking; Customer profiling; Market impacts; Maximum rank; Query vectors; Synthetic datasets; Targeted advertising; Top-k query; User's preferences; Computer Sciences; Databases and Information Systems
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/2823; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/3823/viewcontent/VLDB15_MaxRank.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The top-k query is a common means to shortlist a number of options from a set of alternatives, based on the user's preferences. Typically, these preferences are expressed as a vector of query weights, defined over the options' attributes. The query vector implicitly associates each alterna...