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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
3517
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2003
Pagerank
0.00015684963
Overall Rank
623 | 95.73%
DOI
10.1145/872757.872814

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{papadias_sigmod03,
        title = {{An Optimal and Progressive Algorithm for Skyline Queries}},
        author = {Papadias, Dimitris and Tao, Yufei and Fu, Greg and Seeger, Bernhard},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '03},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/872757.872814},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/872757.872814},
        year = {2003}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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792 Finding k-Dominant Skylines in High Dimensional Space 2006 SIGMOD 0.00013979615
1,097 Probabilistic Skylines on Uncertain Data 2007 VLDB 0.00012181027
1,185 Maximal Vector Computation in Large Data Sets 2005 VLDB 0.00011772712
1,360 Efficient Computation of the Skyline Cube 2005 VLDB 0.00011040203
1,636 Relaxing Join and Selection Queries 2006 VLDB 0.00010156479
1,847 Efficient Computation of Reverse Skyline Queries 2007 VLDB 9.6252055e-05
2,306 Catching the Best Views of Skyline: A Semantic Approach Based on Decisive Subspaces 2005 VLDB 8.7755724e-05
2,434 Efficient Skyline Computation over Low-Cardinality Domains 2007 VLDB 8.5839844e-05
2,516 Stratified Computation of Skylines with Partially-Ordered Domains 2005 SIGMOD 8.4773324e-05
2,730 DADA: A Data Cube for Dominant Relationship Analysis 2006 SIGMOD 8.1977425e-05
2,932 Multi-objective Query Processing for Database Systems 2004 VLDB 7.9475864e-05
3,139 Monochromatic and Bichromatic Reverse Skyline Search over Uncertain Databases 2008 SIGMOD 7.7188328e-05
3,254 Skyline Community Search in Multi-valued Networks 2018 SIGMOD 7.5928992e-05
3,273 Refreshing the Sky: The Compressed Skycube with Efficient Support for Frequent Updates 2006 SIGMOD 7.5768045e-05
4,198 Primitives for Workload Summarization and Implications for SQL 2003 VLDB 6.8397659e-05
4,622 Context-Sensitive Ranking 2006 SIGMOD 6.6014783e-05
4,950 ProgXe: Progressive Result Generation Framework for Multi-Criteria Decision Support Queries 2010 SIGMOD 6.4312348e-05
5,409 Efficient Skyline Querying with Variable User Preferences on Nominal Attributes 2008 VLDB 6.2279841e-05
5,887 Call to Order: A Hierarchical Browsing Approach to Eliciting Users' Preference 2010 SIGMOD 6.0500409e-05
6,467 Efficient Parallel Skyline Processing using Hyperplane Projections 2011 SIGMOD 5.8712039e-05
6,473 Parallel Computation of Skyline and Reverse Skyline Queries Using MapReduce 2013 VLDB 5.8698599e-05
6,616 Categorical Skylines for Streaming Data 2008 SIGMOD 5.8214223e-05
8,312 Skyline Operator on Anti-correlated Distributions 2013 VLDB 5.4556836e-05
8,378 Discovering the Skyline of Web Databases 2016 VLDB 5.4387677e-05
9,320 QSkycube: Efficient Skycube Computation Using Point-Based Space Partitioning 2011 VLDB 5.289545e-05
9,364 FHL-Cube: Multi-Constraint Shortest Path Querying with Flexible Combination of Constraints 2022 VLDB 5.2798829e-05
11,199 Directional Queries: Making Top-k Queries More Effective in Discovering Relevant Results 2024 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
12,127 Processing of Probabilistic Skyline Queries Using MapReduce 2015 VLDB 5.093636e-05
12,274 eSkyline: Processing Skyline Queries over Encrypted Data 2013 VLDB 5.093636e-05
12,400 ZINC: Efficient Indexing for Skyline Computation 2011 VLDB 5.093636e-05
12,498 Minimizing the Communication Cost for Continuous Skyline Maintenance 2009 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
12,672 On Dominating Your Neighborhood Profitably 2007 VLDB 5.093636e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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
4 The R*-tree: An Efficient and Robust Access Method for Points and Rectangles 1990 SIGMOD 0.001157935
28 Nearest Neighbor Queries 1995 SIGMOD 0.00052102434
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
333 The Onion Technique: Indexing for Linear Optimization Queries 2000 SIGMOD 0.0002089582
402 Fuzzy Queries in Multimedia Database Systems 1998 PODS 0.00019072958
407 PREFER: A System for the Efficient Execution of Multiparametric Ranked Queries 2001 SIGMOD 0.00019021441
499 Supporting Incremental Join Queries on Ranked Inputs 2001 VLDB 0.00017431827
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