On Obtaining Stable Rankings

Summary: Geometric framework to measure stability of weight-based rankings under perturbations and identify weight regions that preserve order. Algorithms produce stable full and top-k rankings within the region of interest, with theoretical guarantees and extensive real-dataset validation. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 12146
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2019
Pagerank: 6.2075408e-05
Overall Rank: 5,465 | 62.51%
DOI: 10.14778/3291264.3291269

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Authors

1. Abolfazl Asudeh (University of Michigan)
2. H. V. Jagadish (University of Michigan)
3. Gerome Miklau (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
4. Julia Stoyanovich (New York University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{asudeh_vldb19,
        title = {{On Obtaining Stable Rankings}},
        author = {Asudeh, Abolfazl and Jagadish, H. V. and Miklau, Gerome and Stoyanovich, Julia},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '19},
        volume = {12},
        number = {3},
        pages = {237--250},
        doi = {10.14778/3291264.3291269},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3291264.3291269},
        year = {2019}
}

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1,340	Responsible Data Management	2020	VLDB	0.00011111667
1,597	Designing Fair Ranking Schemes	2019	SIGMOD	0.00010246472
4,746	On Detecting Cherry-picked Trendlines	2020	VLDB	6.5256876e-05
5,278	Why Not Yet: Fixing a Top-k Ranking that Is Not Fair to Individuals	2023	VLDB	6.2856584e-05
5,631	Tailoring Data Source Distributions for Fairness-aware Data Integration	2021	VLDB	6.1427477e-05
6,786	A Unified Optimization Algorithm For Solving “Regret-Minimizing Representative” Problems	2020	VLDB	5.7740702e-05
6,824	Fairly Evaluating and Scoring Items in a Data Set	2020	VLDB	5.7623529e-05
7,367	Identifying Insufficient Data Coverage for Ordinal Continuous-Valued Attributes	2021	SIGMOD	5.6319194e-05
8,930	MithraRanking: A System for Responsible Ranking Design	2019	SIGMOD	5.3483178e-05
10,263	Local Stability of Rankings	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,725	Locator: Local Stability for Rankings	2025	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,823	Mining the Minoria: Unknown, Under-represented, and Under-performing Minority Groups	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,174	FairHash: A Fair and Memory/Time-efficient Hashmap	2024	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
11,397	rkHit: Representative Query with Uncertain Preference	2023	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5	Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware [Extended Abstract]	2001	PODS	0.0010828372
333	The Onion Technique: Indexing for Linear Optimization Queries	2000	SIGMOD	0.0002089582
1,072	Regret-Minimizing Representative Databases	2010	VLDB	0.0001230281
1,327	A Unified Approach to Ranking in Probabilistic Databases	2009	VLDB	0.00011141552
1,561	Efficient Searching with Linear Constraints (Extended Abstract)	1998	PODS	0.00010361147
1,597	Designing Fair Ranking Schemes	2019	SIGMOD	0.00010246472
1,844	Probabilistic Ranking of Database Query Results	2004	VLDB	9.6314187e-05
2,063	Computing k-Regret Minimizing Sets	2014	VLDB	9.2399169e-05
2,211	Relational link-based ranking	2004	VLDB	8.9422791e-05
2,525	Answering Top-k Queries Using Views	2006	VLDB	8.4653166e-05
3,823	Ranking Continuous Probabilistic Datasets	2010	VLDB	7.092508e-05
4,622	Context-Sensitive Ranking	2006	SIGMOD	6.6014783e-05
4,727	Efficient Computation of Regret-ratio Minimizing Set: A Compact Maxima Representative	2017	SIGMOD	6.5362946e-05
6,577	A Nutritional Label for Rankings	2018	SIGMOD	5.8364579e-05
6,592	RRR: Rank-Regret Representative	2019	SIGMOD	5.830041e-05
8,378	Discovering the Skyline of Web Databases	2016	VLDB	5.4387677e-05
8,665	Geometric Approaches for Top-k Queries	2017	VLDB	5.3884685e-05
9,239	Keyword Querying and Ranking in Databases	2009	VLDB	5.300554e-05
12,083	Query Reranking As A Service	2016	VLDB	5.093636e-05

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