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To deal with the problem of too many results returned from a Web database in response to a user query, this paper proposes a novel approach, which takes advantage of the contextual preferences to precompute a few representative orders of tuples and uses them to expeditiously provide ranked answers factoring in the information contained in the query. Contextual preferences take the form that item i...
Set the date range to filter the displayed results. You can set a starting date, ending date or both. You can enter the dates manually or choose them from the calendar.