Reconciling Skyline and Ranking Queries

Summary: Introduces restricted skylines (R-skylines), unifying dominance-based skylines with ranking over constrained families of scoring functions. Defines generalized operators, establishes their properties, and provides efficient algorithms validated on synthetic and real data. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 11618
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 6.1983381e-05
Overall Rank: 5,496 | 62.30%
DOI: 10.14778/3137628.3137630

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Authors

1. Paolo Ciaccia (University of Bologna)
2. Davide Martinenghi (Polytechnic University of Milan)

BibTeX Citation

@article{ciaccia_vldb17,
        title = {{Reconciling Skyline and Ranking Queries}},
        author = {Ciaccia, Paolo and Martinenghi, Davide},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '17},
        volume = {10},
        number = {11},
        pages = {1454--1466},
        doi = {10.14778/3137628.3137630},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3137628.3137630},
        year = {2017}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
6,052	Exact Processing of Uncertain Top-k Queries in Multi-criteria Settings	2018	VLDB	5.9941393e-05
6,636	Marrying Top-k with Skyline Queries: Relaxing the Preference Input while Producing Output of Controllable Size	2021	SIGMOD	5.8172769e-05
7,124	GTI: Graph-based Tree Index with Logarithm Updates for Nearest Neighbor Search in High-Dimensional Spaces	2025	VLDB	5.6961208e-05
8,825	Creating Top Ranking Options in the Continuous Option and Preference Space	2019	VLDB	5.3616725e-05
9,900	On m-Impact Regions and Standing Top-k Influence Problems	2021	SIGMOD	5.1997534e-05
11,199	Directional Queries: Making Top-k Queries More Effective in Discovering Relevant Results	2024	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
11,250	Robust Best Point Selection under Unreliable User Feedback	2024	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,397	rkHit: Representative Query with Uncertain Preference	2023	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
11,565	tau-LevelIndex: Towards Efficient Query Processing in Continuous Preference Space	2022	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
380	On Saying "Enough Already!" in SQL	1997	SIGMOD	0.00019563191
2,571	Ranking with Uncertain Scoring Functions: Semantics and Sensitivity Measures	2011	SIGMOD	8.4029939e-05
2,827	Efficient Processing of Top-k Dominating Queries on Multi-Dimensional Data	2007	VLDB	8.0831263e-05
6,249	Maximum Rank Query	2015	VLDB	5.9418925e-05
6,830	Global Immutable Region Computation	2014	SIGMOD	5.759977e-05
9,524	Output-sensitive Evaluation of Prioritized Skyline Queries	2015	SIGMOD	5.2555551e-05

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