Efficient Computation of the Skyline Cube

Summary: Computes the Skycube—the skylines for every nonempty dimension subset—by exploiting dependencies and sharing work across related queries. Bottom-Up and Top-Down algorithms substantially outperform independent, shared-nothing skyline computation. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 9497
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2005
Pagerank: 0.00011040203
Overall Rank: 1,360 | 90.68%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Yidong Yuan (University of New South Wales)
2. Xuemin Lin (University of New South Wales)
3. Qing Liu (University of New South Wales)
4. Wei Wang (University of New South Wales)
5. Jeffrey Xu Yu (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
6. Qing Zhang (University of New South Wales)

BibTeX Citation

@article{yuan_vldb05,
        title = {{Efficient Computation of the Skyline Cube}},
        author = {Yuan, Yidong and Lin, Xuemin and Liu, Qing and Wang, Wei and Yu, Jeffrey Xu and Zhang, Qing},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '05},
        volume = {31},
        pages = {241--252},
        year = {2005}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 18 of 18 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
792	Finding k-Dominant Skylines in High Dimensional Space	2006	SIGMOD	0.00013979615
1,097	Probabilistic Skylines on Uncertain Data	2007	VLDB	0.00012181027
1,636	Relaxing Join and Selection Queries	2006	VLDB	0.00010156479
1,847	Efficient Computation of Reverse Skyline Queries	2007	VLDB	9.6252055e-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
2,730	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
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
4,170	Creating Competitive Products	2009	VLDB	6.8543709e-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
6,903	Computing Closed Skycubes	2010	VLDB	5.7425895e-05
7,695	A Shared Execution Strategy for Multiple Pattern Mining Requests over Streaming Data	2009	VLDB	5.5661355e-05
9,320	QSkycube: Efficient Skycube Computation Using Point-Based Space Partitioning	2011	VLDB	5.289545e-05
11,978	Template Skycube Algorithms for Heterogeneous Parallelism on Multicore and GPU Architectures	2017	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,498	Minimizing the Communication Cost for Continuous Skyline Maintenance	2009	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 12 of 12 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
207	On the Computation of Multidimensional Aggregates	1996	VLDB	0.00025088003
243	Efficient Progressive Skyline Computation	2001	VLDB	0.00023495903
308	Shooting Stars in the Sky: An Online Algorithm for Skyline Queries	2002	VLDB	0.00021787597
324	An Array-Based Algorithm for Simultaneous Multidimensional Aggregates	1997	SIGMOD	0.00021200835
393	Bottom-Up Computation of Sparse and Iceberg CUBEs	1999	SIGMOD	0.0001934104
407	PREFER: A System for the Efficient Execution of Multiparametric Ranked Queries	2001	SIGMOD	0.00019021441
623	An Optimal and Progressive Algorithm for Skyline Queries	2003	SIGMOD	0.00015684963
1,083	Fast Computation of Sparse Datacubes	1997	VLDB	0.00012256953
1,185	Maximal Vector Computation in Large Data Sets	2005	VLDB	0.00011772712
2,306	Catching the Best Views of Skyline: A Semantic Approach Based on Decisive Subspaces	2005	VLDB	8.7755724e-05
2,496	Star-Cubing: Computing Iceberg Cubes by Top-Down and Bottom-Up Integration	2003	VLDB	8.5025699e-05
2,932	Multi-objective Query Processing for Database Systems	2004	VLDB	7.9475864e-05

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