• DocumentCode
    3335055
  • Title

    Weighted Boolean conditions for ranking

  • Author

    Beck, Matthias ; Freitag, Burkhard

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Inf. Manage., Passau Univ., Passau
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    7-12 April 2008
  • Firstpage
    568
  • Lastpage
    571
  • Abstract
    Current database systems are tailored to efficiently evaluate Boolean expressions which are typically used as selection conditions to restrict the result set. We propose to add weight annotations to selection conditions to obtain a ranking on the set of answer tuples. In this paper, we introduce an extended relational algebra able to handle ranked selection conditions.
  • Keywords
    Boolean functions; SQL; relational algebra; relational databases; Boolean expression evaluation; SQL; database systems; relational algebra; weighted Boolean condition; Algebra; Automobiles; Computational efficiency; Database systems; Fuels; Information management; Information retrieval; Mobile handsets; Petroleum; User interfaces;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Data Engineering Workshop, 2008. ICDEW 2008. IEEE 24th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Cancun
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2161-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2162-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICDEW.2008.4498382
  • Filename
    4498382