Top κ Favorite Probabilistic Products Queries.

With the development of the economy, products are significantly enriched, and uncertainty has been their inherent quality. The probabilistic dynamic skyline (PDS) query is a powerful tool for customers to use in selecting products according to their preferences. However, this query suffers several limitations: it requires the specification of a probabilistic threshold, which reports undesirable results and disregards important results; it only focuses on the objects that have large dynamic skyline probabilities; and, additionally, the results are not stable. To address this concern, in this paper, we formulate an uncertain dynamic skyline (UDS) query over a probabilistic product set. Furthermore, we propose effective pruning strategies for the UDS query, and integrate them into effective algorithms. In addition, a novel query type, namely the top κ favorite probabilistic products (TFPP) query, is presented. The TFPP query is utilized to select κ products which can meet the needs of a customer set at the maximum level. To tackle the TFPP query, we propose a TFPP algorithm and its efficient parallelization. Extensive experiments with a variety of experimental settings illustrate the efficiency and effectiveness of our proposed algorithms. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]