Determining Top-K Candidates by Reverse Constrained Skyline Queries

Ruei Sian Jheng, En Tzu Wang, Arbee L. P. Chen

2015

Abstract

Given a set of criteria, an object o is defined to dominate another object o' if o is no worse than o' in each criterion and has better outcomes in at least a specific criterion. A skyline query returns each object that is not dominated by any other objects. Consider a scenario as follows. Given three types of datasets, including residents in a city, existing restaurants in the city, and candidate places for opening new restaurants in the city, where each restaurant and candidate place has its respective rank on a set of criteria, e.g., convenience of parking, we want to find the top-k candidate places that have the most potential customers. The potential customers of a candidate place is defined as the number of residents whose distance to this candidate is no larger than a given distance r and also regard this candidate as their skyline restaurants. In this paper, we propose an efficient method based on the quad-tree index and use four pruning strategies to solve this problem. A series of experiments are performed to compare the proposed method with a straightforward method using the R-tree index. The experiment results demonstrate that the proposed method is very efficient, and the pruning strategies very powerful.

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Jheng R., Wang E. and Chen A. (2015). Determining Top-K Candidates by Reverse Constrained Skyline Queries . In Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Data Management Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: DATA, ISBN 978-989-758-103-8, pages 101-110. DOI: 10.5220/0005498601010110


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@conference{data15,
author={Ruei Sian Jheng and En Tzu Wang and Arbee L. P. Chen},
title={Determining Top-K Candidates by Reverse Constrained Skyline Queries},
booktitle={Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Data Management Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: DATA,},
year={2015},
pages={101-110},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005498601010110},
isbn={978-989-758-103-8},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Data Management Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: DATA,
TI - Determining Top-K Candidates by Reverse Constrained Skyline Queries
SN - 978-989-758-103-8
AU - Jheng R.
AU - Wang E.
AU - Chen A.
PY - 2015
SP - 101
EP - 110
DO - 10.5220/0005498601010110