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Pareto optimal tuples
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Given two d-dimensional points p and q where d is a positive integer, p is said to dominate or Pareto-dominate q, denoted by p < q, if p is better than or equal to q on all dimensions and p is better than q on at least one of the d dimensions. Given a set D of d-dimensional points and a point p in D, p is said to be a skyline point in D if p is not dominated by any other points in D. A skyline query is to find all skyline points in D.
Each dimension can be numeric or categorical. If a dimension is numeric, all values in this dimension are totally ordered. For any two values in the dimension, one value is more preferable than the other value. One example of a numeric dimension is the price of a product where a smaller value is more preferable. Another example of a numeric dimension is the hotel class where a higher value is more preferable. If a dimension is categorical, the ordering on the values in this dimension is more complicated. One...
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Peng, P., Wong, R.CW. (2018). Skyline Queries and Pareto Optimality. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_80684
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