Processing skyline queries in temporal databases

The skyline query aims to filter out a set of eligible points on the basis of a set of evaluation criteria and out of a potentially large dataset of points. The computation of this decision support problem has been studied across a wide range of environments and of types of data. A field of research that has remained unexplored in the context of this problem, and which would also greatly benefit from the study of the computation of the skyline query, is that of temporal databases. A solution for computing skyline queries and some of its variants over temporal data is put forward here. An experimental study indicates the promising effectiveness and practicability of the proposed extension of the skyline query processing in real-life temporal data applications.