Skyline queries are useful in many applications such as multi-criteria decision making, data mining, and user preference queries.
A skyline query returns a set of interesting data objects that are not dominated in all dimensions by any other objects. For
a high-dimensional database, sometimes it returns too many data objects to analyze intensively. To reduce the number of returned
objects and to find more important and meaningful objects, we consider a problem of
k-dominant skyline queries. Given an
n-dimensional database, an object
p is said to
k-dominates another object
q if there are

dimensions in which
p is better than or equal to
q. A
k-dominant skyline object is an object that is not
k-dominated by any other objects. In contrast, conventional skyline objects are
n-dominant objects. We propose an efficient method for computing
k-dominant skyline queries. Intensive performance study using real and synthetic datasets demonstrated that our method is efficient
and scalable.