Efficient Processing of Window Queries in The Pyramid Data Structure
Summary: Introduces the incomplete pyramid, a variant of the pyramid spatial index, and algorithms for exist/report window queries running in O(n log log T) time for an n×n window in a T×T space. Thus query cost scales almost linearly with window diameter n, not its area n^2. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Walid G. Aref (University of Maryland)
- 2. Hanan Samet (University of Maryland)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{aref_pods90,
address = {New York, NY, USA},
series = {{PODS} '90},
title = {{Efficient Processing of Window Queries in The Pyramid Data Structure}},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/298514.298579},
doi = {10.1145/298514.298579},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
author = {Aref, Walid G. and Samet, Hanan},
year = {1990}
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| 7,070 | Indexing Methods for Moving Object Databases: Games and Other Applications | 2013 | SIGMOD | 5.7116663e-05 |
| 7,505 | Kamel: A Scalable BERT-based System for Trajectory Imputation | 2024 | VLDB | 5.6029996e-05 |
| 7,842 | Processing and Optimizing Main Memory Spatial-Keyword Queries | 2016 | VLDB | 5.5333985e-05 |
| 10,990 | Polaris: An Interactive and Scalable Data Infrastructure for Polar Science | 2025 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
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| 11,923 | A Demonstration of Sya: A Spatial Probabilistic Knowledge Base Construction System | 2018 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
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