International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems

Volume 5, Issue 4, August 2012, Pages 789 - 804

An Approach to Database Preference Queries Based on an Outranking Relation

Authors
Patrick Bosc, Olivier Pivert, Grégory Smits
Corresponding Author
Patrick Bosc
Received 9 July 2012, Accepted 18 July 2012, Available Online 1 August 2012.
DOI
10.1080/18756891.2012.718161How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Databases, preference queries, outranking
Abstract

In this paper, we describe an approach to database preference queries based on the notion of outranking, suited to the situation where preferences on different attributes are not commensurable. This model constitutes an alternative to the use of Pareto order whose main drawback is to leave many tuples incomparable in general. Even though outranking does not define an order in the mathematical sense of the term, we describe a technique which yields a complete pre-order, based on a global aggregation of the outranking degrees computed for each pair of tuples, which reflects the global “quality” of a tuple w.r.t. the others.

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Journal
International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems
Volume-Issue
5 - 4
Pages
789 - 804
Publication Date
2012/08/01
ISSN (Online)
1875-6883
ISSN (Print)
1875-6891
DOI
10.1080/18756891.2012.718161How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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