During the last decades, data management and storage have become increasingly
distributed. Advanced query operators, such as skyline queries, are necessary in order to …

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 …

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 …

The skyline operator has received considerable attention from the database community, due
to its importance in many applications including multicriteria decision making, preference …

Skyline queries help users make intelligent decisions over complex data, where different
and often conflicting criteria are considered. A challenging problem is to support skyline …

In this paper, we study the generation of efficient execution plans for skyline query
processing in large-scale distributed environments. In such a setting, each server stores …

Selecting representative objects from a large-scale database is an essential task to
understand the database. A skyline query is one of the popular methods for selecting …

Skyline queries, together with other advanced query operators, are essential in order to help
identify sets of interesting data points buried within huge amount of data readily available …

The skyline query as an important aspect of big data management, has received
considerable attention from the database community, due to its importance in many …

An increasing number of large-scale applications exploit peer-to-peer network architecture
to provide highly scalable and flexible services. Among these applications, data …