Skyline Analysis for Business Intelligence

MPhil Thesis Defence

Title: "Skyline Analysis for Business Intelligence"

By

Mr. Qian Wan

Abstract


The importance of skyline analysis has been well recognized in business 
intelligence applications, such as decision making for marketing . Most 
previous works study how to help customers find a set of “best” products 
from a pool of given products. In this work, we identify a new problem, 
creating competitive products. Given a set of products in the existing 
market, we want to study how to create a set of “best” possible products 
such that the newly created products are not dominated by the products in 
the existing market. There exists a straightforward solution to 
materialize all possible products and check for dominance relationships. 
However, this approach is not unscalable for large data sets. In this 
work, we propose an approach to effectively support this query. An 
extensive performance study using both synthetic and real data sets is 
reported to verify its effectiveness and efficiency.


Date:			Thursday, 8 July 2010

Time:			3:00pm – 5:00pm

Venue:			Room 3501
 			Lifts 25/26

Committee Members:	Dr. Raymond Wong (Supervisor)
 			Dr. Wilfred Ng (Chairperson)
 			Dr. Lei Chen


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