Ontology-Based Data Access Leveraging Subjective Reports

This SpringerBrief reviews the knowledge engineering problem of engineering objectivity in top—k query answering; essentially, answers must be computed taking into account the user’s preferences and a collection of (subjective) reports provided by other users. Most assume each report can be seen as a set of scores for a list of features, its author’s preferences among the features, as well as other information is discussed in this brief. These pieces of information for every report are then...