Discovering the Skyline of Web Databases
Summary: Skyline discovery over top-k hidden web databases; algorithms for one-ended range, free-range, and point-predicate interfaces, blended for mixed controls. Rigorous analysis and real-world experiments demonstrate efficiency and superiority over baselines. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Abolfazl Asudeh (University of Texas)
- 2. Saravanan Thirumuruganathan (University of Texas)
- 3. Nan Zhang (George Washington University)
- 4. Gautam Das (University of Texas)
BibTeX Citation
@article{asudeh_vldb16,
title = {{Discovering the Skyline of Web Databases}},
author = {Asudeh, Abolfazl and Thirumuruganathan, Saravanan and Zhang, Nan and Das, Gautam},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '16},
volume = {9},
number = {7},
pages = {600--611},
doi = {10.14778/2904483.2904487},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2904483.2904487},
year = {2016}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 8 of 8 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,597 | Designing Fair Ranking Schemes | 2019 | SIGMOD | 0.00010246472 |
| 3,254 | Skyline Community Search in Multi-valued Networks | 2018 | SIGMOD | 7.5928992e-05 |
| 4,727 | Efficient Computation of Regret-ratio Minimizing Set: A Compact Maxima Representative | 2017 | SIGMOD | 6.5362946e-05 |
| 5,465 | On Obtaining Stable Rankings | 2019 | VLDB | 6.2075408e-05 |
| 5,631 | Tailoring Data Source Distributions for Fairness-aware Data Integration | 2021 | VLDB | 6.1427477e-05 |
| 6,592 | RRR: Rank-Regret Representative | 2019 | SIGMOD | 5.830041e-05 |
| 6,786 | A Unified Optimization Algorithm For Solving “Regret-Minimizing Representative” Problems | 2020 | VLDB | 5.7740702e-05 |
| 12,083 | Query Reranking As A Service | 2016 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 11 of 11 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 243 | Efficient Progressive Skyline Computation | 2001 | VLDB | 0.00023495903 |
| 308 | Shooting Stars in the Sky: An Online Algorithm for Skyline Queries | 2002 | VLDB | 0.00021787597 |
| 340 | Crawling the Hidden Web | 2001 | VLDB | 0.00020711119 |
| 623 | An Optimal and Progressive Algorithm for Skyline Queries | 2003 | SIGMOD | 0.00015684963 |
| 1,097 | Probabilistic Skylines on Uncertain Data | 2007 | VLDB | 0.00012181027 |
| 1,554 | Google’s Deep-Web Crawl | 2008 | VLDB | 0.00010372108 |
| 1,847 | Efficient Computation of Reverse Skyline Queries | 2007 | VLDB | 9.6252055e-05 |
| 2,827 | Efficient Processing of Top-k Dominating Queries on Multi-Dimensional Data | 2007 | VLDB | 8.0831263e-05 |
| 5,868 | A Random Walk Approach to Sampling Hidden Databases | 2007 | SIGMOD | 6.0613238e-05 |
| 7,185 | Anytime Measures for Top-k Algorithms | 2007 | VLDB | 5.6779179e-05 |
| 9,683 | Optimal Algorithms for Crawling a Hidden Database in the Web | 2012 | VLDB | 5.2352357e-05 |
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