"You May Also Like" Results in Relational Databases
Kostas Stefanidis, Marina Drosou, Evaggelia Pitoura · 2009
In this position paper, we consider extending relational data-base systems with a recommendation functionality. In par-ticular, we propose that, along with the results of each query, the user gets additional recommended results that we call “You May Also Like ” or Ymal results. We discuss a suite of different approaches to computing Ymal results and ex-ploit one that uses only the database content and the query results. Some preliminary evaluation results are also pro-vided. 1.