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Publications [#235354] of Pankaj K. Agarwal

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  1. Yu, A; Agarwal, PK; Yang, J, Top-k preferences in high dimensions, Proceedings International Conference on Data Engineering (January, 2014), pp. 748-759, IEEE, ISSN 1084-4627 [doi]
    (last updated on 2023/06/02)

    Abstract:
    Given a set of objects O, each with d numeric attributes, a top-k preference scores these objects using a linear combination of their attribute values, where the weight on each attribute reflects the interest in this attribute. Given a query preference q, a top-k query finds the k objects in O with highest scores with respect to q. Given a query object o and a set of preferences Q, a reverse top-k query finds all preferences q ∈ Q for which o becomes one of the top k objects with respect to q. Previous solutions to these problems are effective only in low dimensions. In this paper, we develop a solution for much higher dimensions (up to high tens), if many preferences exhibit sparsity - i.e., each specifies non-zero weights for only a handful (say 5-7) of attributes (though the subsets of such attributes and their weights can vary greatly). Our idea is to select carefully a set of low-dimensional core subspaces to 'cover' the sparse preferences in a workload. These subspaces allow us to index them more effectively than the full-dimensional space. Being multi-dimensional, each subspace covers many possible preferences; furthermore, multiple subspaces can jointly cover a preference, thereby expanding the coverage beyond each subspace's dimensionality. Experimental evaluation validates our solution's effectiveness and advantages over previous solutions. © 2014 IEEE.

 

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