Top-K Queries on Uncertain Data: On Score Distribution and Typical Answers
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Ge, Tingjian
Zdonik, Stan
Madden, Samuel R.
Date Issued
2009
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SIGMOD '09 Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of data
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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
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Tingjian Ge, Stan Zdonik, and Samuel Madden. 2009. Top-k queries on uncertain data: on score distribution and typical answers. In Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of data (SIGMOD '09), Carsten Binnig and Benoit Dageville (Eds.). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 375-388.
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Abstract
Uncertain data arises in a number of domains, including data integration and sensor networks. Top-k queries that rank results according to some user-defined score are an important tool for exploring large uncertain data sets. As several recent papers have observed, the semantics of top-k queries on uncertain data can be ambiguous due to tradeoffs between reporting high-scoring tuples and tuples with a high probability of being in the resulting data set. In this paper, we demonstrate the need to present the score distribution of top-k vectors to allow the user to choose between results along this score-probability dimensions. One option would be to display the complete distribution of all potential top-k tuple vectors, but this set is too large to compute. Instead, we propose to provide a number of typical vectors that effectively sample this distribution. We propose efficient algorithms to compute these vectors. We also extend the semantics and algorithms to the scenario of score ties, which is not dealt with in the previous work in the area. Our work includes a systematic empirical study on both real dataset and synthetic datasets.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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https://doi.org/10.1145/1559845.1559886
