Top-k best probability queries on probabilistic data

  • Authors:
  • Trieu Minh Nhut Le;Jinli Cao

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia;Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia

  • Venue:
  • DASFAA'12 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

There has been much interest in answering top-k queries on probabilistic data in various applications such as market analysis, personalised services, and decision making. In relation to probabilistic data, the most common problem in answering top-k queries is selecting the semantics of results according to their scores and top-k probabilities. In this paper, we propose a novel top-k best probability query to obtain results which are not only the best top-k scores but also the best top-k probabilities. We also introduce an efficient algorithm for top-k best probability queries without requiring the user's defined threshold. Then, the top-k best probability answer is analysed, which satisfies the semantic ranking properties of queries [3,18] on uncertain data. The experimental studies are tested with both the real data to verify the effectiveness of the top-k best probability queries and the efficiency of our algorithm.