Durable Top-K Instant-Stamped Temporal Records with User-Specified Scoring Functions

A way of finding interesting or exceptional records from instant-stamped temporal data is to consider their "durability, " or, intuitively speaking, how well they compare with other records that arrived earlier or later, and how long they retain their supremacy. For example, people are naturally fascinated by claims with long durability, such as: "On January 22, 2006, Kobe Bryant dropped 81 points...