Indexing Boolean Expressions

Summary: Inverted-list index for arbitrary DNF/CNF expressions over multi-valued attributes, including NOTs. Enables top-N matching via inverted-list ranking, boosting online advertising and publish/subscribe workloads; shows dramatic performance gains. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9951
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2009
Pagerank: 7.8248136e-05
Overall Rank: 2,951 | 79.50%
DOI: -

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4,611	SKYPE: Top-k Spatial-keyword Publish/Subscribe Over Sliding Window	2016	VLDB	6.0438331e-05
4,947	Evaluating Temporal Queries Over Video Feeds	2021	SIGMOD	5.8107138e-05
5,589	Efficiently Evaluating Complex Boolean Expressions	2010	SIGMOD	5.4187931e-05
6,249	BE-Tree: An Index Structure to Efficiently Match Boolean Expressions over High-dimensional Discrete Space	2011	SIGMOD	5.132996e-05
6,524	Evaluation Strategies for Top-k Queries over Memory-Resident Inverted Indexes	2011	VLDB	5.0225949e-05
6,995	An Efficient Publish/Subscribe Index for E-Commerce Databases	2014	VLDB	4.8633927e-05
7,124	Location-Aware Pub/Sub System: When Continuous Moving Queries Meet Dynamic Event Streams	2015	SIGMOD	4.8193745e-05
7,693	Processing and Optimizing Main Memory Spatial-Keyword Queries	2016	VLDB	4.6714423e-05
8,272	TQVS: Temporal Queries over Video Streams in Action	2020	SIGMOD	4.5394894e-05
8,583	A-Tree: A Dynamic Data Structure for Efficiently Indexing Arbitrary Boolean Expressions	2021	SIGMOD	4.4859208e-05
9,261	PS-Tree-Based Efficient Boolean Expression Matching for High-Dimensional and Dense Workloads	2019	VLDB	4.3648789e-05

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
259	High-Performance Complex Event Processing over Streams	2006	SIGMOD	0.00030155645
497	Filtering Algorithms and Implementation for Very Fast Publish/Subscribe Systems	2001	SIGMOD	0.00021667647
3,214	Cayuga: A High-Performance Event Processing Engine	2007	SIGMOD	7.3708419e-05
3,355	Managing Expressions as Data in Relational Database Systems	2003	CIDR	7.1772076e-05
3,530	RE-Tree: An Efficient Index Structure for Regular Expressions	2002	VLDB	7.0008977e-05
5,396	Scalable Ranked Publish/Subscribe	2008	VLDB	5.5279512e-05

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