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On the semantics and evaluation of top-k queries in probabilistic databases

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Abstract

We formulate three intuitive semantic properties for top-k queries in probabilistic databases, and propose Global-Topk query semantics which satisfies all of them. We provide a dynamic programming algorithm to evaluate top-k queries under Global-Topk semantics in simple probabilistic relations. For general probabilistic relations, we show a polynomial reduction to the simple case. Our analysis shows that the complexity of query evaluation is linear in k and at most quadratic in database size.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2008 - IEEE 24th International Conference on Data Engineering Workshop, ICDE'08
Pages556-563
Number of pages8
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
Event2008 - IEEE 24th International Conference on Data Engineering Workshop, ICDE'08 - Cancun, Mexico
Duration: Apr 7 2008Apr 12 2008

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Data Engineering

Conference

Conference2008 - IEEE 24th International Conference on Data Engineering Workshop, ICDE'08
Country/TerritoryMexico
CityCancun
Period04/7/0804/12/08

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