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Estimating the Selectivity of Spatial Queries Using the 'Correlation' Fractal Dimension

Summary: Estimates selectivity of range and spatial-join queries from real spatial data using the Correlation Dimension D2 to capture fractal structure. Neighbor counts follow a power law with exponent D2; provides biased-query formulas with a shape constant K_shape, achieving ~10% error vs 40–100% under uniformity. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
8277
Venue
VLDB
Year
1995
Pagerank
7.789769e-05
Overall Rank
2,974 | 79.32%
DOI
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325 The History of Histograms (abridged) 2003 VLDB 0.00027378328
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1,488 On the Analysis of Indexing Schemes 1997 PODS 0.00011699446
1,811 A Cost Model for Similarity Queries in Metric Spaces 1998 PODS 0.00010467197
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3,527 Analysis of n-dimensional Quadtrees Using the Hausdorff Fractal Dimension 1996 VLDB 7.0073154e-05
3,900 Tight bounds for 2-dimensional indexing schemes 1998 PODS 6.6518011e-05
4,112 Searching Trajectories by Locations - An Efficiency Study 2010 SIGMOD 6.4422697e-05
5,982 Modeling skewed distributions using multifractals and the '80-20 law' 1996 VLDB 5.2446136e-05
6,161 Spatial Join Selectivity Using Power Laws 2000 SIGMOD 5.1753664e-05
8,709 Incremental Partitioning for Efficient Spatial Data Analytics 2022 VLDB 4.4638829e-05
8,819 Modeling Skew in Data Streams 2006 SIGMOD 4.4421123e-05
8,894 Are Window Queries Representative For Arbitrary Range Queries? 1996 PODS 4.4274507e-05
9,143 Similarity Query Processing Using Disk Arrays 1998 SIGMOD 4.3850454e-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
2 R-Trees: A Dynamic Index Structure For Spatial Searching 1984 SIGMOD 0.0032169493
6 The R*-tree: An Efficient and Robust Access Method for Points and Rectangles 1990 SIGMOD 0.0016162015
13 Mining Association Rules between Sets of Items in Large Databases 1993 SIGMOD 0.0010864752
47 Nearest Neighbor Queries 1995 SIGMOD 0.0007015885
65 Fast Subsequence Matching in Time-Series Databases 1994 SIGMOD 0.00062029383
76 Spatial Query Processing in an Object-Oriented Database System 1986 SIGMOD 0.00057303551
99 On the Propagation of Errors in the Size of Join Results 1991 SIGMOD 0.00050022914
116 Equi-Depth Histograms For Estimating Selectivity Factors For Multi-Dimensional Queries 1988 SIGMOD 0.00046148737
354 Hilbert R-tree: An Improved R-tree Using Fractals 1994 VLDB 0.00026137988
668 The Sequoia 2000 Storage Benchmark 1993 SIGMOD 0.00018430721
725 Optimization Strategies for Spatial Query Processing 1991 VLDB 0.00017529198
769 Client-Server Paradise 1994 VLDB 0.00016918508
1,114 Beyond Uniformity and Independence : Analysis of R-trees Using the Concept of Fractal Dimension 1994 PODS 0.00013901031
2,030 Analysis Of Object Oriented Spatial Access Methods 1987 SIGMOD 9.7378136e-05
2,472 A Comparison of Spatial Query Processing Techniques for Native and Parameter Spaces 1990 SIGMOD 8.7237893e-05
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