Kernel-Based Skyline Cardinality Estimation

Summary: Kernel-Based (KB) nonparametric skyline cardinality estimator; relaxes LS's independence, capturing inter-dimension correlations. Real-data experiments: KB outperforms Log Sampling in accuracy, maintains similar efficiency, and extends to k-dominant skylines. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4205
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2009
Pagerank: 7.6249441e-05
Overall Rank: 3,224 | 77.89%
DOI: 10.1145/1559845.1559899

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Authors

1. Zhenjie Zhang (National University of Singapore)
2. Yin Yang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
3. Ruichu Cai (South China University of Technology)
4. Dimitris Papadias (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
5. Anthony Tung (National University of Singapore)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{zhang_sigmod09,
        title = {{Kernel-Based Skyline Cardinality Estimation}},
        author = {Zhang, Zhenjie and Yang, Yin and Cai, Ruichu and Papadias, Dimitris and Tung, Anthony},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '09},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1559845.1559899},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1559845.1559899},
        year = {2009}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 10 of 10 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,441	Efficient Processing of Top-k Spatial Preference Queries	2011	VLDB	0.00010778831
1,503	Self-Tuning, GPU-Accelerated Kernel Density Models for Multidimensional Selectivity Estimation	2015	SIGMOD	0.000105564
6,052	Exact Processing of Uncertain Top-k Queries in Multi-criteria Settings	2018	VLDB	5.9941393e-05
6,249	Maximum Rank Query	2015	VLDB	5.9418925e-05
7,069	SKT: A One-Pass Multi-Sketch Data Analytics Accelerator	2021	VLDB	5.7117595e-05
8,312	Skyline Operator on Anti-correlated Distributions	2013	VLDB	5.4556836e-05
8,825	Creating Top Ranking Options in the Continuous Option and Preference Space	2019	VLDB	5.3616725e-05
9,192	Efficient and Effective Cardinality Estimation for Skyline Family	2023	SIGMOD	5.3058708e-05
10,208	Causal Search for Skylines (CSS): Causally-Informed Selective Data De-Correlation	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,464	Efficient Skyline Evaluation over Partially Ordered Domains	2010	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 14 of 14 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
101	Selectivity Estimation Without the Attribute Value Independence Assumption	1997	VLDB	0.00034376651
243	Efficient Progressive Skyline Computation	2001	VLDB	0.00023495903
267	Optimal Histograms with Quality Guarantees	1998	VLDB	0.00022798161
308	Shooting Stars in the Sky: An Online Algorithm for Skyline Queries	2002	VLDB	0.00021787597
339	Sequential Sampling Procedures For Query Size Estimation	1992	SIGMOD	0.00020723773
792	Finding k-Dominant Skylines in High Dimensional Space	2006	SIGMOD	0.00013979615
1,097	Probabilistic Skylines on Uncertain Data	2007	VLDB	0.00012181027
1,360	Efficient Computation of the Skyline Cube	2005	VLDB	0.00011040203
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
3,273	Refreshing the Sky: The Compressed Skycube with Efficient Support for Frequent Updates	2006	SIGMOD	7.5768045e-05
3,409	Approaching the Skyline in Z Order	2007	VLDB	7.4368546e-05
4,846	A Comparison of Selectivity Estimators for Range Queries on Metric Attributes	1999	SIGMOD	6.4807645e-05

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