The skyline of a d-dimensional dataset consists of all points not dominated by others. The incorporation of the skyline operator into practical database systems necessitates an ef...
The ability to deal with uncertain information is becoming increasingly important for modern database applications. Whereas a conventional (certain) object is usually represented ...
Lately the advances in centralized database management systems show a trend towards supporting rank-aware query operators, like top-k, that enable users to retrieve only the most ...
— In recent years, the research community introduced various methods for processing skyline queries in multidimensional databases. The skyline operator retrieves all objects bein...
Recently, systems providing access to extremely large data collections, managed in a distributed manner, gain emerging attention. A promising approach to implement the physical la...