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 …

As data of an unprecedented scale are becoming accessible, it becomes more and more
important to help each user identify the ideal results of a manageable size. As such a …

Skyline queries have recently received considerable attention as an alternative decision-
making operator in the database community. The conventional skyline algorithms have …

Skyline queries aim to help users make intelligent decisions over complex data by
discovering a set of interesting points, when different and often conflicting criteria are …

The skyline is a popular operator to extract records from a database when a record scoring
function is not available. However, the result of a skyline query can be very large. The …

When selecting alternatives from large amounts of data, trade-offs play a vital role in
everyday decision making. In databases this is primarily reflected by the top-k retrieval …

Machine virtualisation is a key technology for server consolidation and on-demand server
provisioning. To support this trend, it is essential to improve the performance of virtualisation …

Criteria that induce a Skyline naturally represent user's preference conditions useful to
discard irrelevant data in large datasets. However, in the presence of high-dimensional …

Recently, the study of the skyline and its variants has received considerable attention in
various applications that require decision making and personalized services. The skyline is …