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Querying graphs with preferences

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Valeria Fionda,

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CIKM '13: Proceedings of the 22nd ACM international conference on Information & Knowledge Management

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2505515.2505758

Published: 27 October 2013 Publication History

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This paper presents GuLP a graph query language that enables to declaratively express preferences. Preferences enable to order the answers to a query and can be stated in terms of nodes/edge attributes and complex paths. We present the formal syntax and semantics of GuLP and a polynomial time algorithm for evaluating GuLP expressions. We describe an implementation of GuLP in the GuLP-it system, which is available for download. We evaluate the GuLP-it system on real-world and synthetic data.

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Index Terms

Querying graphs with preferences
1. Information systems
  1. Data management systems
    1. Database management system engines
      1. Database query processing
    2. Query languages
2. Theory of computation
  1. Theory and algorithms for application domains
    1. Database theory
      1. Database query processing and optimization (theory)

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DOI:10.1145/2505515

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