Incremental Clustering for Mining in a Data Warehousing Environment

Summary: Proposes IncrementalDBSCAN to maintain DBSCAN clusters under daily warehouse updates. Updates affect only local neighborhoods, yielding identical results to DBSCAN and substantial speedups on spatial and WWW-log databases. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8690
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1998
Pagerank: 9.501636e-05
Overall Rank: 1,907 | 86.92%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Martin Ester (University of Munich)
2. Hans-Peter Kriegel (University of Munich)
3. Jörg Sander (University of Munich)
4. Michael Wimmer (University of Munich)
5. Xiaowei Xu (University of Munich)

BibTeX Citation

@article{ester_vldb98,
        title = {{Incremental Clustering for Mining in a Data Warehousing Environment}},
        author = {Ester, Martin and Kriegel, Hans-Peter and Sander, Jörg and Wimmer, Michael and Xu, Xiaowei},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '98},
        pages = {323--333},
        year = {1998}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 10 of 10 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
291	OPTICS: Ordering Points To Identify the Clustering Structure	1999	SIGMOD	0.00022264197
461	Query-based Workload Forecasting for Self-Driving Database Management Systems	2018	SIGMOD	0.00018068441
1,018	Dense Subgraph Maintenance under Streaming Edge Weight Updates for Real-time Story Identification	2012	VLDB	0.0001263063
1,053	Multi-dimensional Selectivity Estimation Using Compressed Histogram Information	1999	SIGMOD	0.00012401532
3,020	Dynamic Density Based Clustering	2017	SIGMOD	7.8445412e-05
5,203	A Particle-and-Density Based Evolutionary Clustering Method for Dynamic Networks	2009	VLDB	6.3192921e-05
5,483	DenForest: Enabling Fast Deletion in Incremental Density-Based Clustering over Sliding Windows	2022	SIGMOD	6.2019677e-05
7,291	Incremental and Effective Data Summarization for Dynamic Hierarchical Clustering	2004	SIGMOD	5.6539603e-05
7,695	A Shared Execution Strategy for Multiple Pattern Mining Requests over Streaming Data	2009	VLDB	5.5661355e-05
8,881	Summarization and Matching of Density-Based Clusters in Streaming Environments	2012	VLDB	5.3520513e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4	The R*-tree: An Efficient and Robust Access Method for Points and Rectangles	1990	SIGMOD	0.001157935
27	Fast Algorithms for Mining Association Rules	1994	VLDB	0.00052255472
31	BIRCH: An Efficient Data Clustering Method for Very Large Databases	1996	SIGMOD	0.00050347119
56	M-tree: An Efficient Access Method for Similarity Search in Metric Spaces	1997	VLDB	0.00040719947
88	Efficient and Effective Clustering Methods for Spatial Data Mining	1994	VLDB	0.00035240327
905	Maintenance of Data Cubes and Summary Tables in a Warehouse	1997	SIGMOD	0.0001331508
5,779	Multiple-View Self-Maintenance in Data Warehousing Environments	1997	VLDB	6.0917725e-05

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