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An Information-Theoretic Study on Aggregate Responses.

Chung-Dak Shum, Richard R. Muntz: An Information-Theoretic Study on Aggregate Responses. VLDB 1988: 479-490
@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/vldb/ShumM88,
  author    = {Chung-Dak Shum and
               Richard R. Muntz},
  editor    = {Fran\c{c}ois Bancilhon and
               David J. DeWitt},
  title     = {An Information-Theoretic Study on Aggregate Responses},
  booktitle = {Fourteenth International Conference on Very Large Data Bases,
               August 29 - September 1, 1988, Los Angeles, California, USA,
               Proceedings},
  publisher = {Morgan Kaufmann},
  year      = {1988},
  isbn      = {0-934613-75-3},
  pages     = {479-490},
  ee        = {db/conf/vldb/ShumM88.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/vldb/88},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}
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Abstract

An enumeration of individual objects is not always the best means of information exchange. This paper concerns the problem of providing aggregate responses to database queries. An aggregate response is an expression whose terms are quantified concepts. The tradeoff between the conciseness and preciseness of an aggregate response is studied. Conciseness is measured by the length (the number of terms) of an expression, and preciseness is measured by the entropy or the amount of uncertainty associated with the expression. For a given length, an expression with the minimum amount of entropy is called optimal. Under a one-level taxonomy with the same cardinalities for all leaf concepts, the problem of tinding an optimal expression can be solved inexpensively. An efficient heuristic is also proposed for the general one-level taxonomy. For a taxonomy of more than one level, an efficient heuristic is suggested which experiments indicate yields good solutions.

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François Bancilhon, David J. DeWitt (Eds.): Fourteenth International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, August 29 - September 1, 1988, Los Angeles, California, USA, Proceedings. Morgan Kaufmann 1988, ISBN 0-934613-75-3
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  1. Christos Faloutsos, H. V. Jagadish, Nikolaos Sidiropoulos: Recovering Information from Summary Data. VLDB 1997: 36-45
  2. Amihai Motro: Intensional Answers to Database Queries. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 6(3): 444-454(1994)
  3. Robert L. Read, Donald S. Fussell, Abraham Silberschatz: A Multi-Resolution Relational Data Model. VLDB 1992: 139-150
  4. Wesley W. Chu, Rei-Chi Lee, Qiming Chen: Using Type Inference and Induced Rules to Provide Intensional Answers. ICDE 1991: 396-403
  5. Amihai Motro, Qiuhui Yuan: Querying Database Knowledge. SIGMOD Conference 1990: 173-183
  6. Amihai Motro: Using Integrity Constraints to Provide Intensional Answers to Relational Queries. VLDB 1989: 237-246
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