Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4943309 | Expert Systems with Applications | 2017 | 10 Pages |
Abstract
Now the handling of user preference is becoming an increasingly important issue in database fields where they capture soft criteria for queries. A broader category of qualitative preferences with dependent relations among multiple attributes is widely existing, which is CP-nets. In this article, we focus on designing the operators of preference composition for CP-nets. Firstly, we extend Pareto composition to our model by including equivalence relation â, incomparability relation ⥠and conflicting relation â¥, which can preserve a strict partial order and conditional associativity. On this basis, two questions are solved: (a) the generation of satisfiability sequences for CP-nets, (b) the top-k queries of relational database with CP-nets preference. For (a), a CP-net is induced into multiple tables, consequently the strong dominance tests between outcomes can be solved by using preference composition instead of using induced preference graph of CP-nets. For (b), we adopt the concept of Query Lattice to provide a natural semantics for the block sequence answering a preference query, where two algorithms (called QOCP and IQOCP) are introduced. These questions are solved efficiently and effectively at the perspective of combination of graph model and relational database.
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Authors
Xuejiao Sun, Jinglei Liu, Kai Wang,