@InProceedings{balke:DagSemProc.04271.3,
  author =	{Balke, Wolf-Tilo},
  title =	{{Efficient Evaluation of Numerical Preferences: Top k Queries, Skylines and Multi-objective Retrieval}},
  booktitle =	{Preferences: Specification, Inference, Applications},
  pages =	{1--1},
  series =	{Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)},
  ISSN =	{1862-4405},
  year =	{2006},
  volume =	{4271},
  editor =	{Gianni Bosi and Ronen I. Brafman and Jan Chomicki and Werner Kie{\ss}ling},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.04271.3},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-4007},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagSemProc.04271.3},
  annote =	{Keywords: Top k retrieval , skyline queries, multi-objective optimization, numerical preferences, utility functions}
}