Branch-and-Bound Algorithm for Reverse Top-k Queries

Summary: Proposes a branch-and-bound algorithm for reverse top-k queries that avoids per-user top-k executions and full preference scans. Leverages pruning properties and optimizations; experiments show large gains over RTA on large preference collections. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4749
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2013
Pagerank: 6.6500719e-05
Overall Rank: 4,514 | 69.04%
DOI: 10.1145/2463676.2465278

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Authors

1. Akrivi Vlachou (Athena; Norwegian Institute of Technology)
2. Christos Doulkeridis (Norwegian Institute of Technology; University of Piraeus)
3. Kjetil Nørvåg (Norwegian Institute of Technology)
4. Yannis Kotidis (Athens University of Economics and Business)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{vlachou_sigmod13,
        title = {{Branch-and-Bound Algorithm for Reverse Top-k Queries}},
        author = {Vlachou, Akrivi and Doulkeridis, Christos and Nørvåg, Kjetil and Kotidis, Yannis},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '13},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2463676.2465278},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2463676.2465278},
        year = {2013}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,895	Answering Why-not Questions on Reverse Top-k Queries	2015	VLDB	7.9829449e-05
5,278	Why Not Yet: Fixing a Top-k Ranking that Is Not Fair to Individuals	2023	VLDB	6.2856584e-05
5,796	Reverse k-Ranks Query	2014	VLDB	6.0859929e-05
6,249	Maximum Rank Query	2015	VLDB	5.9418925e-05
6,830	Global Immutable Region Computation	2014	SIGMOD	5.759977e-05
8,825	Creating Top Ranking Options in the Continuous Option and Preference Space	2019	VLDB	5.3616725e-05
9,010	Determining the Impact Regions of Competing Options in Preference Space	2017	SIGMOD	5.3333957e-05
9,900	On m-Impact Regions and Standing Top-k Influence Problems	2021	SIGMOD	5.1997534e-05
11,565	tau-LevelIndex: Towards Efficient Query Processing in Continuous Preference Space	2022	SIGMOD	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
5	Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware [Extended Abstract]	2001	PODS	0.0010828372
108	Optimizing Multi-Feature Queries for Image Databases	2000	VLDB	0.00033228866
333	The Onion Technique: Indexing for Linear Optimization Queries	2000	SIGMOD	0.0002089582
407	PREFER: A System for the Efficient Execution of Multiparametric Ranked Queries	2001	SIGMOD	0.00019021441
546	Influence Sets Based on Reverse Nearest Neighbor Queries	2000	SIGMOD	0.00016734556
635	Evaluating Top-k Selection Queries	1999	VLDB	0.00015527042
1,847	Efficient Computation of Reverse Skyline Queries	2007	VLDB	9.6252055e-05
2,427	Processing a Large Number of Continuous Preference Top-k Queries	2012	SIGMOD	8.5915976e-05
2,730	DADA: A Data Cube for Dominant Relationship Analysis	2006	SIGMOD	8.1977425e-05
3,007	Towards Robust Indexing for Ranked Queries	2006	VLDB	7.8583548e-05
3,139	Monochromatic and Bichromatic Reverse Skyline Search over Uncertain Databases	2008	SIGMOD	7.7188328e-05
3,702	Best Position Algorithms for Top-k Queries	2007	VLDB	7.1838636e-05
4,170	Creating Competitive Products	2009	VLDB	6.8543709e-05
4,466	Identifying the Most Influential Data Objects with Reverse Top-k Queries	2010	VLDB	6.6844194e-05

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