STING : A Statistical Information Grid Approach to Spatial Data Mining

Summary: STING introduces a hierarchical statistical information grid for spatial data mining. By summarizing spatial cells with statistics, it answers broad queries and clustering without per-object scans, yielding speedups on large datasets. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8419
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1997
Pagerank: 0.00014119975
Overall Rank: 1,097 | 92.38%
DOI: -

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Showing 10 of 10 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
161	LOF: Identifying Density-Based Local Outliers	2000	SIGMOD	0.00039846974
961	DBSCAN Revisited: Mis-Claim, Un-Fixability, and Approximation	2015	SIGMOD	0.00015001792
1,126	Trajectory Clustering: A Partition-and-Group Framework	2007	SIGMOD	0.00013821443
1,538	WaveCluster: A Multi-Resolution Clustering Approach for Very Large Spatial Databases	1998	VLDB	0.00011464884
3,475	Optimal Grid-Clustering: Towards Breaking the Curse of Dimensionality in High-Dimensional Clustering	1999	VLDB	7.0614822e-05
4,823	YADING: Fast Clustering of Large-Scale Time Series Data	2015	VLDB	5.8956566e-05
6,653	Supporting Ranking and Clustering as Generalized Order-By and Group-By	2007	SIGMOD	4.9735307e-05
6,883	C2P: Clustering based on Closest Pairs	2001	VLDB	4.8960306e-05
8,789	Machine Learning Meets Big Spatial Data	2019	VLDB	4.4509194e-05
12,622	A Shrinking-Based Approach for Multi-Dimensional Data Analysis	2003	VLDB	4.1945683e-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
27	Efficient and Effective Clustering Methods for Spatial Data Mining	1994	VLDB	0.00080736878
33	BIRCH: An Efficient Data Clustering Method for Very Large Databases	1996	SIGMOD	0.00077324389
668	The Sequoia 2000 Storage Benchmark	1993	SIGMOD	0.00018430721

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