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A Discussion on Pricing Relational Data

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In Search of Elegance in the Theory and Practice of Computation

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There exists a growing market for structured data on the Internet today, and this motivates a theoretical study of how relational data should be priced. We advocate for a framework where the seller defines a pricing scheme, by essentially stipulating the price of some queries, and the buyer is allowed to purchase data expressed by any query they wish: the system will derive the price automatically from the pricing scheme. We show that, in order to understand pricing, one needs to understand determinacy first. We also discuss some other open problems in pricing relational data.

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  1. University of Washington, Seattle, USA

    Magdalena Balazinska, Bill Howe, Paraschos Koutris, Dan Suciu & Prasang Upadhyaya

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  1. Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, 3330 Walnut St., 19104, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Val Tannen

  2. School of Computing, National University of Singapore, 13 Computing Drive, 117417, Singapore, Singapore

    Limsoon Wong

  3. School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, 10 Crichton Street, EH8 9AB, Edinburgh, UK

    Leonid Libkin , Wenfei Fan  & Michael Fourman ,  & 

  4. Department of Computer Science, University of California, 1156 High Street, 95064, Santa Cruz, CA, USA

    Wang-Chiew Tan

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Balazinska, M., Howe, B., Koutris, P., Suciu, D., Upadhyaya, P. (2013). A Discussion on Pricing Relational Data. In: Tannen, V., Wong, L., Libkin, L., Fan, W., Tan, WC., Fourman, M. (eds) In Search of Elegance in the Theory and Practice of Computation. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8000. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41660-6_7

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