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Shooting Stars in the Sky: An Online Algorithm for Skyline Queries

Summary: Online skyline algorithm that returns results incrementally instead of batching. Offers interactive, preference-driven streaming, letting users steer which results appear next (e.g., cheaper or nearer) during execution. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
9042
Venue
VLDB
Year
2002
Pagerank
0.00021787597
Overall Rank
308 | 97.89%
DOI
10.1016/B978-155860869-6/50032-9

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

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BibTeX Citation

@article{kossmann_vldb02,
        title = {{Shooting Stars in the Sky: An Online Algorithm for Skyline Queries}},
        author = {Kossmann, Donald and Ramsak, Frank and Rost, Steffen},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '02},
        doi = {10.1016/B978-155860869-6/50032-9},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-155860869-6/50032-9},
        year = {2002}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 46 of 46 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
623 An Optimal and Progressive Algorithm for Skyline Queries 2003 SIGMOD 0.00015684963
792 Finding k-Dominant Skylines in High Dimensional Space 2006 SIGMOD 0.00013979615
1,097 Probabilistic Skylines on Uncertain Data 2007 VLDB 0.00012181027
1,185 Maximal Vector Computation in Large Data Sets 2005 VLDB 0.00011772712
1,360 Efficient Computation of the Skyline Cube 2005 VLDB 0.00011040203
1,636 Relaxing Join and Selection Queries 2006 VLDB 0.00010156479
1,844 Probabilistic Ranking of Database Query Results 2004 VLDB 9.6314187e-05
2,306 Catching the Best Views of Skyline: A Semantic Approach Based on Decisive Subspaces 2005 VLDB 8.7755724e-05
2,434 Efficient Skyline Computation over Low-Cardinality Domains 2007 VLDB 8.5839844e-05
2,516 Stratified Computation of Skylines with Partially-Ordered Domains 2005 SIGMOD 8.4773324e-05
2,689 The Spatial Skyline Queries 2006 VLDB 8.2559825e-05
2,730 DADA: A Data Cube for Dominant Relationship Analysis 2006 SIGMOD 8.1977425e-05
2,827 Efficient Processing of Top-k Dominating Queries on Multi-Dimensional Data 2007 VLDB 8.0831263e-05
2,932 Multi-objective Query Processing for Database Systems 2004 VLDB 7.9475864e-05
3,224 Kernel-Based Skyline Cardinality Estimation 2009 SIGMOD 7.6249441e-05
3,273 Refreshing the Sky: The Compressed Skycube with Efficient Support for Frequent Updates 2006 SIGMOD 7.5768045e-05
3,409 Approaching the Skyline in Z Order 2007 VLDB 7.4368546e-05
3,429 Angle-based Space Partitioning for Efficient Parallel Skyline Computation 2008 SIGMOD 7.4203247e-05
4,170 Creating Competitive Products 2009 VLDB 6.8543709e-05
4,941 Randomized Multi-pass Streaming Skyline Algorithms 2009 VLDB 6.4333573e-05
5,016 On Finding Skylines in External Memory 2011 PODS 6.3998091e-05
5,124 Approximation Schemes for Many-Objective Query Optimization 2014 SIGMOD 6.3567981e-05
5,138 Robust and Efficient Algorithms for Rank Join Evaluation 2009 SIGMOD 6.3495536e-05
5,409 Efficient Skyline Querying with Variable User Preferences on Nominal Attributes 2008 VLDB 6.2279841e-05
5,455 Scalable Skyline Computation Using Object-based Space Partitioning 2009 SIGMOD 6.2133548e-05
5,887 Call to Order: A Hierarchical Browsing Approach to Eliciting Users' Preference 2010 SIGMOD 6.0500409e-05
6,467 Efficient Parallel Skyline Processing using Hyperplane Projections 2011 SIGMOD 5.8712039e-05
6,473 Parallel Computation of Skyline and Reverse Skyline Queries Using MapReduce 2013 VLDB 5.8698599e-05
6,616 Categorical Skylines for Streaming Data 2008 SIGMOD 5.8214223e-05
8,029 Distributed Threshold Querying of General Functions by a Difference of Monotonic Representation 2011 VLDB 5.5045998e-05
8,312 Skyline Operator on Anti-correlated Distributions 2013 VLDB 5.4556836e-05
8,378 Discovering the Skyline of Web Databases 2016 VLDB 5.4387677e-05
8,750 I/O-Efficient Planar Range Skyline and Attrition Priority Queues 2013 PODS 5.3766157e-05
9,010 Determining the Impact Regions of Competing Options in Preference Space 2017 SIGMOD 5.3333957e-05
9,068 Efficient Secure and Verifiable Location-Based Skyline Queries over Encrypted Data 2022 VLDB 5.3251649e-05
9,320 QSkycube: Efficient Skycube Computation Using Point-Based Space Partitioning 2011 VLDB 5.289545e-05
10,030 Skyline Queries with Noisy Comparisons 2015 PODS 5.1741314e-05
10,208 Causal Search for Skylines (CSS): Causally-Informed Selective Data De-Correlation 2026 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
12,000 A Declarative Query Processing System for Nowcasting 2017 VLDB 5.093636e-05
12,094 Finding Quality in Quantity: The Challenge of Discovering Valuable Sources for Integration 2015 CIDR 5.093636e-05
12,127 Processing of Probabilistic Skyline Queries Using MapReduce 2015 VLDB 5.093636e-05
12,464 Efficient Skyline Evaluation over Partially Ordered Domains 2010 VLDB 5.093636e-05
12,498 Minimizing the Communication Cost for Continuous Skyline Maintenance 2009 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
12,544 A Fair Assignment Algorithm for Multiple Preference Queries 2009 VLDB 5.093636e-05
12,581 Dynamic Active Probing of Helpdesk Databases 2008 VLDB 5.093636e-05
12,672 On Dominating Your Neighborhood Profitably 2007 VLDB 5.093636e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 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
28 Nearest Neighbor Queries 1995 SIGMOD 0.00052102434
243 Efficient Progressive Skyline Computation 2001 VLDB 0.00023495903
380 On Saying "Enough Already!" in SQL 1997 SIGMOD 0.00019563191
1,762 Multiobjective Query Optimization 2001 PODS 9.812504e-05
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