Indexing Land Surface for Efficient kNN Query
Summary: Proposes the Surface Index R-tree (SIR-tree) with Tight Surface Index (TSI) and Loose Surface Index (LSI) to support exact skNN on land surfaces. Supports a priori-k-free, incremental search with localized pruning, reporting exact shortest surface paths and outperforming baselines in efficiency and accuracy on real data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Cyrus Shahabi
- 2. Lu-An Tang
- 3. Songhua Xing
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 9 of 9 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,513 | Continuous Monitoring of Nearest Neighbors on Land Surface | 2009 | VLDB | 0.00011593275 |
| 10,016 | Efficient Proximity Queries on Simplified Height Maps | 2026 | SIGMOD | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 10,938 | Proximity Queries on Point Clouds using Rapid Construction Path Oracle | 2024 | SIGMOD | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 11,174 | EAR-Oracle: On Efficient Indexing for Distance Queries between Arbitrary Points on Terrain Surface | 2023 | SIGMOD | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 11,789 | Distance Oracle on Terrain Surface | 2017 | SIGMOD | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 11,878 | New Lower and Upper Bounds for Shortest Distance Queries on Terrains | 2016 | VLDB | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 11,996 | Terrain-Toolkit: A Multi-Functional Tool for Terrain Data | 2014 | VLDB | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 12,017 | Finding Shortest Paths on Terrains by Killing Two Birds with One Stone | 2014 | VLDB | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 12,172 | Finding Shortest Path on Land Surface | 2011 | SIGMOD | 4.1945683e-05 |
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Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | R-Trees: A Dynamic Index Structure For Spatial Searching | 1984 | SIGMOD | 0.0032169493 |
| 47 | Nearest Neighbor Queries | 1995 | SIGMOD | 0.0007015885 |
| 389 | Query Processing in Spatial Network Databases | 2003 | VLDB | 0.00024620268 |
| 598 | Voronoi-Based K Nearest Neighbor Search for Spatial Network Databases | 2004 | VLDB | 0.00019474545 |
| 601 | Influence Sets Based on Reverse Nearest Neighbor Queries | 2000 | SIGMOD | 0.00019375875 |
| 1,275 | Continuous Nearest Neighbor Search | 2002 | VLDB | 0.00012883899 |
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