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An Optimal and Progressive Algorithm for Skyline Queries

Summary: BBS: a branch-and-bound progressive skyline algorithm using NN search; IO-optimal with a single R-tree access and no duplicates. Analysis and experiments show BBS outperforms NN by orders of magnitude across distributions and supports multiple skyline queries. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
3456
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2003
Pagerank
0.00017212135
Overall Rank
746 | 94.82%
DOI
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913 Finding k-Dominant Skylines in High Dimensional Space 2006 SIGMOD 0.00015372758
1,181 Probabilistic Skylines on Uncertain Data 2007 VLDB 0.00013447487
1,471 Maximal Vector Computation in Large Data Sets 2005 VLDB 0.0001181903
1,576 Efficient Computation of the Skyline Cube 2005 VLDB 0.00011278557
1,830 Relaxing Join and Selection Queries 2006 VLDB 0.0001037611
2,351 Multi-objective Query Processing for Database Systems 2004 VLDB 8.9836468e-05
2,450 Efficient Computation of Reverse Skyline Queries 2007 VLDB 8.7855268e-05
2,502 Efficient Skyline Computation over Low-Cardinality Domains 2007 VLDB 8.631993e-05
2,699 Catching the Best Views of Skyline: A Semantic Approach Based on Decisive Subspaces 2005 VLDB 8.2758509e-05
2,873 Stratified Computation of Skylines with Partially-Ordered Domains 2005 SIGMOD 7.9777806e-05
3,032 DADA: A Data Cube for Dominant Relationship Analysis 2006 SIGMOD 7.6752032e-05
3,454 Refreshing the Sky: The Compressed Skycube with Efficient Support for Frequent Updates 2006 SIGMOD 7.0770352e-05
3,608 Skyline Community Search in Multi-valued Networks 2018 SIGMOD 6.9241653e-05
3,634 Monochromatic and Bichromatic Reverse Skyline Search over Uncertain Databases 2008 SIGMOD 6.8949444e-05
4,280 Primitives for Workload Summarization and Implications for SQL 2003 VLDB 6.28375e-05
4,637 Context-Sensitive Ranking 2006 SIGMOD 6.0246358e-05
4,915 ProgXe: Progressive Result Generation Framework for Multi-Criteria Decision Support Queries 2010 SIGMOD 5.8285114e-05
5,591 Efficient Skyline Querying with Variable User Preferences on Nominal Attributes 2008 VLDB 5.4181199e-05
5,988 Call to Order: A Hierarchical Browsing Approach to Eliciting Users' Preference 2010 SIGMOD 5.2394981e-05
6,568 Efficient Parallel Skyline Processing using Hyperplane Projections 2011 SIGMOD 5.0020592e-05
6,580 Parallel Computation of Skyline and Reverse Skyline Queries Using MapReduce 2013 VLDB 4.9982968e-05
6,680 Categorical Skylines for Streaming Data 2008 SIGMOD 4.960978e-05
8,132 Discovering the Skyline of Web Databases 2016 VLDB 4.5741104e-05
9,164 QSkycube: Efficient Skycube Computation Using Point-Based Space Partitioning 2011 VLDB 4.380727e-05
9,207 FHL-Cube: Multi-Constraint Shortest Path Querying with Flexible Combination of Constraints 2022 VLDB 4.3694476e-05
9,506 Skyline Operator on Anti-correlated Distributions 2013 VLDB 4.3300131e-05
10,989 Directional Queries: Making Top-k Queries More Effective in Discovering Relevant Results 2024 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
11,937 Processing of Probabilistic Skyline Queries Using MapReduce 2015 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
12,085 eSkyline: Processing Skyline Queries over Encrypted Data 2013 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
12,213 ZINC: Efficient Indexing for Skyline Computation 2011 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
12,312 Minimizing the Communication Cost for Continuous Skyline Maintenance 2009 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
12,488 On Dominating Your Neighborhood Profitably 2007 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
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Showing 8 of 8 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
6 The R*-tree: An Efficient and Robust Access Method for Points and Rectangles 1990 SIGMOD 0.0016113151
48 Nearest Neighbor Queries 1995 SIGMOD 0.0006954126
171 Fuzzy Queries in Multimedia Database Systems 1998 PODS 0.00038843975
262 Efficient Progressive Skyline Computation 2001 VLDB 0.00029962961
386 Shooting Stars in the Sky: An Online Algorithm for Skyline Queries 2002 VLDB 0.00024740283
428 The Onion Technique: Indexing for Linear Optimization Queries 2000 SIGMOD 0.0002349868
464 PREFER: A System for the Efficient Execution of Multiparametric Ranked Queries 2001 SIGMOD 0.00022476798
551 Supporting Incremental Join Queries on Ranked Inputs 2001 VLDB 0.00020310856
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