Items from a database are often ranked based on a combination of criteria. The weight given
to each criterion in the combination can greatly affect the fairness of the produced ranking …

Social professional networks provide features not available in other networks. For example,
LinkedIn and AngelList facilitate professional networking, and GitHub enables committing …

In this paper, we present SnipSuggest, a system that provides on-the-go, context-aware
assistance in the SQL composition process. SnipSuggest aims to help the increasing …

This paper addresses the efficient processing of top-k queries in wide-area distributed data
repositories where the index lists for the attribute values (or text terms) of a query are …

This paper surveys research on enabling keyword search in relational databases. We
present fundamental characteristics and discuss research dimensions, including data …

We investigate the problem of ranking the answers to a database query when many tuples
are returned. In particular, we present methodologies to tackle the problem for conjunctive …

We investigate the problem of refining SQL queries to satisfy cardinality constraints on the
query result. This has applications to the many/few answers problems often faced by …

Contextual preferences take the form that item i1 is preferred to item i 2 in the context of X.
For example, a preference might state the choice for Nicole Kidman over Penelope Cruz in …

Précis queries represent a novel way of accessing data, which combines ideas and
techniques from the fields of databases and information retrieval. They are free-form …

Database queries are often exploratory and users often find their queries return too many
answers, many of them irrelevant. Existing work either categorizes or ranks the results to …