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 …

Given an integer k, a representative skyline contains the k skyline points that best describe
the tradeoffs among different dimensions offered by the full skyline. Although this topic has …

Mobile crowdsensing (MCS) is a newly emerged sensing paradigm, where a large group of
mobile workers collectively sense and share data for real-time services. However, one major …

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 of a set of multi-dimensional points (tuples) consists of those points for which no
clearly better point exists in the given set, using component-wise comparison on domains of …

This research develops an advanced two-phase MapReduce solution that is able to
efficiently address skyline queries on large datasets. Unlike existing parallel skyline …

Given a set of multidimensional points, a skyline query returns the interesting points that are
not dominated by other points. It has been observed that the actual cardinality (s) of a skyline …

The skyline of a multidimensional point set is a subset of interesting points that are not
dominated by others. In this paper, we investigate constrained skyline queries in a large …

The database community has observed in the past two decades, the growth of research
interest in preference queries, each of which has its unique techniques, benefits, and …