URank: formulation and efficient evaluation of top-k queries in uncertain databases

  • Authors:
  • Mohamed A. Soliman;Ihab F. Ilyas;Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada;University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada;University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Top-k processing in uncertain databases is semantically and computationally different from traditional top-k processing. The interplay between query scores and data uncertainty makes traditional techniques inapplicable. We introduce URank, a system that processes new probabilistic formulations of top-k queries inuncertain databases. The new formulations are based on marriage of traditional top-k semantics with possible worlds semantics. URank encapsulates a new processing framework that leverages existing query processing capabilities, and implements efficient search strategies that integrate ranking on scores with ranking on probabilities, to obtain meaningful answers for top-k queries.