International Journal of Man-Machine Studies
An introduction to database systems: vol. I (4th ed.)
An introduction to database systems: vol. I (4th ed.)
Implementing imprecision in information systems
Information Sciences: an International Journal - Special issue on expert systems
ARES: a relational database with the capability of performing flexible interpretation of queries
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
BAROQUE: a browser for relational databases
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
On the applied use of human memory models: the memory extender personal filing system
International Journal of Man-Machine Studies
SEAVE: a mechanism for verifying user presuppositions in query systems
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Cooperative interfaces to information systems
Cooperative interfaces to information systems
Pictures of relevance: a geometric analysis of similarity measures
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
The art of computer programming, volume 3: (2nd ed.) sorting and searching
The art of computer programming, volume 3: (2nd ed.) sorting and searching
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
A relational model of data for large shared data banks
Communications of the ACM
Principles of Database Systems
Principles of Database Systems
Information Retrieval
Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval
Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval
Cooperative Responses to Boolean Queries
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Data Engineering
TIMBER: A Sophisticated Relation Browser (Invited Paper)
VLDB '82 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Theory of Relational Databases
Theory of Relational Databases
The SMART Retrieval System—Experiments in Automatic Document Processing
The SMART Retrieval System—Experiments in Automatic Document Processing
Accommodating imprecision in database systems: issues and solutions
ACM SIGMOD Record - Directions for future database research & development
A Visual Language Compiler for Information Retrieval by Visual Reasoning
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Integration of probabilistic fact and text retrieval
SIGIR '92 Proceedings of the 15th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
A loosely-coupled integration of a text retrieval system and an object-oriented database system
SIGIR '92 Proceedings of the 15th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Conceptual learning in database design
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
CIKM '93 Proceedings of the second international conference on Information and knowledge management
Structured document handling—a case for integrating databases and information retrieval
CIKM '94 Proceedings of the third international conference on Information and knowledge management
Efficient processing of vague queries using a data stream approach
SIGIR '95 Proceedings of the 18th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Unraveling the semantics of conceptual schemas
Communications of the ACM
A probabilistic relational algebra for the integration of information retrieval and database systems
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
A hierarchy-aware approach to faceted classification of objected-oriented components
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Corrigenda: a hierarchy-aware approach to faceted classification of object-oriented components
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Fuzzy queries and relational databases
SAC '94 Proceedings of the 1994 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Top-k selection queries over relational databases: Mapping strategies and performance evaluation
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
An intelligent approach to handling imperfect information in concept-based natural language queries
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
APPROXIMATE: A Query Processor that Produces Monotonically Improving Approximate Answers
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
An Information Retrieval Approach for Approximate Queries
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
An Approach to Integrating Query Refinement in SQL
EDBT '02 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Extending Database Technology: Advances in Database Technology
FQAS '02 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems
MindReader: Querying Databases Through Multiple Examples
VLDB '98 Proceedings of the 24rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Evaluating Top-k Selection Queries
VLDB '99 Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
A Probabilistic Framework for Vague Queries and Imprecise Information in Databases
VLDB '90 Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
A General and Efficient Approach for Solving Nearest Neighbor Problem in the Vague Query System
WAIM '02 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Advances in Web-Age Information Management
Imprecision and User Preferences in Multimedia Queries: A Generic Algebraic Approach
FoIKS '00 Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems
ISA - An Incremental Hyper-sphere Approach for Efficiently Solving Complex Vague Queries
DEXA '02 Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
A system for principled matchmaking in an electronic marketplace
WWW '03 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on World Wide Web
Efficient evaluation of relevance feedback for multidimensional all-pairs retrieval
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Answering imprecise database queries: a novel approach
WIDM '03 Proceedings of the 5th ACM international workshop on Web information and data management
Cooperative query processing via knowledge abstraction and query relaxation
Advanced topics in database research vol. 1
Evaluating Refined Queries in Top-k Retrieval Systems
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Providing ranked relevant results for web database queries
Proceedings of the 13th international World Wide Web conference on Alternate track papers & posters
Mining approximate functional dependencies and concept similarities to answer imprecise queries
Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on the Web and Databases: colocated with ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2004
Measuring similarity between collection of values
Proceedings of the 6th annual ACM international workshop on Web information and data management
Rewriting Rules To Permeate Complex Similarity and Fuzzy Queries within a Relational Database System
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
MYSTIQ: a system for finding more answers by using probabilities
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Answering imprecise queries over web databases
VLDB '05 Proceedings of the 31st international conference on Very large data bases
Probabilistic information retrieval approach for ranking of database query results
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
Media Converter with Impression Preservation Using a Neuro-Genetic Approach
International Journal of Hybrid Intelligent Systems
A System for Principled Matchmaking in an Electronic Marketplace
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Efficient query evaluation on probabilistic databases
The VLDB Journal — The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases
Preference SQL: design, implementation, experiences
VLDB '02 Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Very Large Data Bases
Efficient query evaluation on probabilistic databases
VLDB '04 Proceedings of the Thirtieth international conference on Very large data bases - Volume 30
Probabilistic ranking of database query results
VLDB '04 Proceedings of the Thirtieth international conference on Very large data bases - Volume 30
Multi-objective query processing for database systems
VLDB '04 Proceedings of the Thirtieth international conference on Very large data bases - Volume 30
A strategy for allowing meaningful and comparable scores in approximate matching
Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM conference on Conference on information and knowledge management
Region clustering based evaluation of multiple top-N selection queries
Data & Knowledge Engineering
LACO: A location-aware cooperative query system for securely personalized services
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Vague Knowledge Bases for Matchmaking in P2P E-Marketplaces
ESWC '07 Proceedings of the 4th European conference on The Semantic Web: Research and Applications
Ontology-Based Data Sharing in P2P Databases
Semantic Web, Ontologies and Databases
Fuzzy matchmaking in e-marketplaces of peer entities using Datalog
Fuzzy Sets and Systems
Joke retrieval: recognizing the same joke told differently
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
GrouPeer: Dynamic clustering of P2P databases
Information Systems
A Nonmonotonic Approach to Semantic Matchmaking and Request Refinement in E-Marketplaces
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Abduction and Contraction for Semantic-Based Mobile Dating in P2P Environments
WI-IAT '08 Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 01
Automatic threshold estimation for data matching applications
SBBD '08 Proceedings of the 23rd Brazilian symposium on Databases
Tolerant division queries and possibilistic database querying
Fuzzy Sets and Systems
A strategy for allowing meaningful and comparable scores in approximate matching
Information Systems
A strategy for allowing meaningful and comparable scores in approximate matching
Information Systems
Semantic matchmaking as non-monotonic reasoning: a description logic approach
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
A self-learning framework for services selection
International Journal of Information Technology and Management
Processing top-N relational queries by learning
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems
From Keyword Search to Exploration: Designing Future Search Interfaces for the Web
Foundations and Trends in Web Science
Leveraging fuzzy query processing to support applications in wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Reusing classical query rewriting in P2P databases
DBISP2P'05/06 Proceedings of the 2005/2006 international conference on Databases, information systems, and peer-to-peer computing
Database preferences queries: a possibilistic logic approach with symbolic priorities
FoIKS'08 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Foundations of information and knowledge systems
Assessing web services quality for call-by-call outsourcing
WISEW'03 Proceedings of the Fourth international conference on Web information systems engineering workshops
Toward approximate GML retrieval based on structural and semantic characteristics
ICWE'10 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Web engineering
Semantic-distance based evaluation of ranking queries over relational databases
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems
Automatic threshold estimation for data matching applications
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Preferences in AI: An overview
Artificial Intelligence
A survey on representation, composition and application of preferences in database systems
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
Ranking-based processing of SQL queries
Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Conceptual views for entity-centric search: turning data into meaningful concepts
Computer Science - Research and Development
Estimating recall and precision for vague queries in databases
CAiSE'05 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Approaching the efficient frontier: cooperative database retrieval using high-dimensional skylines
DASFAA'05 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications
Flexible query answering using distance-based fuzzy relations
TARSKI'02-05 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Theory and Applications of Relational Structures as Knowledge Instruments - Volume 2
Which should we try first? ranking information resources through query classification
FQAS'11 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems
Approximate query processing for database flexible querying with aggregates
Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems V
Database preference queries--a possibilistic logic approach with symbolic priorities
Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
Minimizing user effort in XML grammar matching
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Pragmatic correlation analysis for probabilistic ranking over relational data
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
A framework for query refinement with user feedback
Journal of Systems and Software
On modeling query refinement by capturing user intent through feedback
ADC '12 Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Australasian Database Conference - Volume 124
Range query estimation with data skewness for top-k retrieval
Decision Support Systems
A Fuzzy linguistic prolog and its applications
Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems: Applications in Engineering and Technology
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A specific query establishes a rigid qualification and is concerned only with data that match it precisely. A vague query establishes a target qualification and is concerned also with data that are close to this target. Most conventional database systems cannot handle vague queries directly, forcing their users to retry specific queries repeatedly with minor modifications until they match data that are satisfactory. This article describes a system called VAGUE that can handle vague queries directly. The principal concept behind VAGUE is its extension to the relational data model with data metrics, which are definitions of distances between values of the same domain. A problem with implementing data distances is that different users may have different interpretations for the notion of distance. VAGUE incorporates several features that enable it to adapt itself to the individual views and priorities of its users.