“…Top-k queries are also popular for providing users ranked search results they are used from web search engines. Top-k queries, in particular, the optimization of top-k query processing for central databases received a lot of attention [3,5,8,9,18,19,20,21,23,26]. Optimizing top-k queries in distributed environment, in particular in highly distributed networks of federated or peer to peer databases still has significant research needs.…”