A top-k filter for logic-based similarity conditions on probabilistic databases

  • Authors:
  • Sebastian Lehrack;Sascha Saretz

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Computer Science, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus, Cottbus, Germany;Institute of Computer Science, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus, Cottbus, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ADBIS'12 Proceedings of the 16th East European conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Probabilistic databases have been established as a powerful technique for managing and analysing large uncertain data sets. A major challenge for probabilistic databases is query evaluation. There exist even simple relational queries for which the exact probability computation is $\#\mathcal{P}$-hard. Consequently, if we are only interested in the k highest ranked tuples, then an efficient pre-filtering can reduce the computation time significantly. In this work we present a top-k filter which computes a small candidate set for a top-k answer based on a complex relational query in polynomial time.