Efficient Diversity-Aware Search

Summary: Proposes DIVGEN, an efficient diversity-aware search that balances relevance and dissimilarity in top-k results. Introduces data-access primitives and a low-overhead prioritization with theoretical guarantees, yielding scalable performance on large corpora. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4493
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2011
Pagerank: 0.0001193423
Overall Rank: 1,153 | 92.10%
DOI: 10.1145/1989323.1989405

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Authors

1. Albert Angel (University of Toronto)
2. Nick Koudas (University of Toronto)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{angel_sigmod11,
        title = {{Efficient Diversity-Aware Search}},
        author = {Angel, Albert and Koudas, Nick},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '11},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1989323.1989405},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1989323.1989405},
        year = {2011}
}

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1,018	Dense Subgraph Maintenance under Streaming Edge Weight Updates for Real-time Story Identification	2012	VLDB	0.0001263063
1,454	Diversifying Top-K Results	2012	VLDB	0.00010739504
1,807	DisC Diversity: Result Diversification based on Dissimilarity and Coverage	2013	VLDB	9.7054469e-05
2,259	Top-k Bounded Diversification	2012	SIGMOD	8.8529269e-05
2,959	Composable Core-sets for Diversity and Coverage Maximization	2014	PODS	7.9182968e-05
4,126	Efficient Selection of Geospatial Data on Maps for Interactive and Visualized Exploration	2018	SIGMOD	6.8860475e-05
5,370	Diversified Top-k Subgraph Querying in a Large Graph	2016	SIGMOD	6.2436385e-05
5,847	MapReduce and Streaming Algorithms for Diversity Maximization in Metric Spaces of Bounded Doubling Dimension	2017	VLDB	6.0676282e-05
5,965	Answering Top-k Representative Queries on Graph Databases	2014	SIGMOD	6.0256454e-05
6,293	Query Refinement for Diversity Constraint Satisfaction	2024	VLDB	5.9247942e-05
7,094	Top-K Structural Diversity Search in Large Networks	2013	VLDB	5.7055799e-05
7,992	Diversity-Aware Top-k Publish/Subscribe for Text Stream	2015	SIGMOD	5.5098908e-05
8,273	Diverse and Proportional Size-l Object Summaries for Keyword Search	2015	SIGMOD	5.4574671e-05
9,131	TED: Towards Discovering Top-k Edge-Diversified Patterns in a Graph Database	2023	SIGMOD	5.3184767e-05
9,750	POIKILO: A Tool for Evaluating the Results of Diversification Models and Algorithms.	2013	VLDB	5.227679e-05
10,301	Towards Selecting Informative Alternative Relational Query Plans for Database Education	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,296	Efficient Indexing for Diverse Query Results	2013	VLDB	5.093636e-05

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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
1,542	Keyword Proximity Search in Complex Data Graphs	2008	SIGMOD	0.00010421046
1,967	IO-Top-k: Index-access Optimized Top-k Query Processing	2006	VLDB	9.3804693e-05
8,758	What's on the Grapevine ?	2009	SIGMOD	5.3766157e-05

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