Distributed Wavelet Thresholding for Maximum Error Metrics

Summary: Distributed wavelet thresholding for fixed-space synopses with maximum error guarantees. Presents a general framework to parallelize DP algorithms, a parallel DP-based solution, and a new parallel greedy method; achieves linear Hadoop scalability and 2–4× faster results than centralized DP while preserving quality. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5319
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2016
Pagerank: 5.1530576e-05
Overall Rank: 10,094 | 30.75%
DOI: 10.1145/2882903.2915230

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Ioannis Mytilinis (National Technical University of Athens)
2. Dimitrios Tsoumakos (Ionian University)
3. Nectarios Koziris (National Technical University of Athens)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{mytilinis_sigmod16,
        title = {{Distributed Wavelet Thresholding for Maximum Error Metrics}},
        author = {Mytilinis, Ioannis and Tsoumakos, Dimitrios and Koziris, Nectarios},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '16},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2882903.2915230},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2882903.2915230},
        year = {2016}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
8,204	PilotDB: Database-Agnostic Online Approximate Query Processing with A Priori Error Guarantees	2025	SIGMOD	5.4667903e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 15 of 15 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
136	Join Synopses for Approximate Query Answering	1999	SIGMOD	0.00030123303
149	New Sampling-Based Summary Statistics for Improving Approximate Query Answers	1998	SIGMOD	0.00029226907
168	Wavelet-Based Histograms for Selectivity Estimation	1998	SIGMOD	0.00027541029
213	Approximate Computation of Multidimensional Aggregates of Sparse Data Using Wavelets	1999	SIGMOD	0.00024723025
235	Fast Incremental Maintenance of Approximate Histograms	1997	VLDB	0.00023783792
267	Optimal Histograms with Quality Guarantees	1998	VLDB	0.00022798161
307	Approximate Query Processing Using Wavelets	2000	VLDB	0.00021792475
311	Surfing Wavelets on Streams: One-Pass Summaries for Approximate Aggregate Queries	2001	VLDB	0.00021760621
435	Histogram-Based Approximation of Set-Valued Query Answers	1999	VLDB	0.000185063
1,156	Wavelet Synopses with Error Guarantees	2002	SIGMOD	0.00011929041
4,188	One-Pass Wavelet Synopses for Maximum-Error Metrics	2005	VLDB	6.8448865e-05
4,325	Deterministic Wavelet Thresholding for Maximum-Error Metrics	2004	PODS	6.7605683e-05
4,819	Space efficiency in Synopsis construction algorithms	2005	VLDB	6.4940349e-05
4,880	An Incremental Anytime Algorithm for Multi-Objective Query Optimization	2015	SIGMOD	6.4656221e-05
5,522	Building Wavelet Histograms on Large Data in MapReduce	2012	VLDB	6.1871697e-05

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