Living in the Information Age allows almost everyone have access to a large amount of
information and options to choose from in order to fulfill their needs. In many cases, the …

Skyline queries compute the set of Pareto-optimal tuples in a relation, that is, those tuples
that are not dominated by any other tuple in the same relation. Although several algorithms …

This is an introduction to multicast routing, which is the study of methods for routing from one
source to many destinations, or from many sources to many destinations. Multicast is …

Skyline query processing has received considerable attention in the recent past. Mainly, the
skyline query is used to find a set of non dominated data points in a multidimensional …

Given a set of data points in a multidimensional space, a skyline query retrieves those data
points that are not dominated by any other point in the same dataset. Observing that the …

Skyline queries are one of the most widely adopted tools for Multi-Criteria Analysis, with
applications covering diverse domains, including, eg, Database Systems, Data Mining, and …

Skyline queries, especially those variants that allow users to define their own query criteria,
are very promising and practical techniques in multi-criteria decision making applications …

The skyline query, aiming at identifying a set of skyline tuples that are not dominated by any
other tuple, is particularly useful for multicriteria data analysis and decision making. For …

Users of mobile services wish to retrieve nearby points of interest without disclosing their
locations to the services. This article addresses the challenge of optimizing the query …

Some things come easily to humans, one of them is the ability to navigate around. This
capability of navigation suffers significantly in case of partial or complete blindness …