Maximum Rank Query

Summary: Introduces MaxRank: the best rank a focal alternative can attain over all user preference-weight vectors. Also returns the preference-space regions realizing that rank, enabling market-impact and profiling analyses via a dedicated processing methodology. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: h3874f0605789f198
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2015
Pagerank: 5.786744e-05
Overall Rank: 6,392 | 57.16%
DOI: 10.14778/2824032.2824057
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Authors

1. Kyriakos Mouratidis (Singapore Management University)
2. Jilian Zhang (Singapore Management University)
3. HweeHwa Pang (Singapore Management University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{mouratidis_vldb15,
        title = {{Maximum Rank Query}},
        author = {Mouratidis, Kyriakos and Zhang, Jilian and Pang, HweeHwa},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '15},
        volume = {8},
        number = {12},
        pages = {1554--1565},
        doi = {10.14778/2824032.2824057},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2824032.2824057},
        year = {2015}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,640	Reconciling Skyline and Ranking Queries	2017	VLDB	6.0377965e-05
6,191	Exact Processing of Uncertain Top-k Queries in Multi-criteria Settings	2018	VLDB	5.8388106e-05
6,780	Marrying Top-k with Skyline Queries: Relaxing the Preference Input while Producing Output of Controllable Size	2021	SIGMOD	5.6685383e-05
8,826	Geometric Approaches for Top-k Queries	2017	VLDB	5.2539334e-05
9,020	Creating Top Ranking Options in the Continuous Option and Preference Space	2019	VLDB	5.2221152e-05
9,207	Determining the Impact Regions of Competing Options in Preference Space	2017	SIGMOD	5.1943724e-05
10,125	On m-Impact Regions and Standing Top-k Influence Problems	2021	SIGMOD	5.0638787e-05
11,596	Directional Queries: Making Top-k Queries More Effective in Discovering Relevant Results	2024	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05
11,924	tau-LevelIndex: Towards Efficient Query Processing in Continuous Preference Space	2022	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 15 of 15 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	0.0011386412
344	The Onion Technique: Indexing for Linear Optimization Queries	2000	SIGMOD	0.00020463118
1,905	Efficient Computation of Reverse Skyline Queries	2007	VLDB	9.3819594e-05
2,495	Processing a Large Number of Continuous Preference Top-k Queries	2012	SIGMOD	8.3676654e-05
2,628	Ranking with Uncertain Scoring Functions: Semantics and Sensitivity Measures	2011	SIGMOD	8.1859431e-05
2,795	DADA: A Data Cube for Dominant Relationship Analysis	2006	SIGMOD	7.9865595e-05
2,975	Answering Why-not Questions on Reverse Top-k Queries	2015	VLDB	7.7807277e-05
3,291	Kernel-Based Skyline Cardinality Estimation	2009	SIGMOD	7.4370263e-05
3,391	Ad-hoc Top-k Query Answering for Data Streams	2007	VLDB	7.3290724e-05
4,258	Creating Competitive Products	2009	VLDB	6.683217e-05
4,565	Identifying the Most Influential Data Objects with Reverse Top-k Queries	2010	VLDB	6.5178554e-05
4,634	Branch-and-Bound Algorithm for Reverse Top-k Queries	2013	SIGMOD	6.476894e-05
5,930	Reverse k-Ranks Query	2014	VLDB	5.9276255e-05
6,992	Global Immutable Region Computation	2014	SIGMOD	5.609582e-05
7,981	Computing Immutable Regions for Subspace Top-k Queries	2013	VLDB	5.3964641e-05

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