Efficient Processing of Top-k Spatial Preference Queries

Summary: Maps data–feature pairs into a distance-score space to identify the minimal pair set sufficient for any top-k spatial preference query. A neighborhood-free query algorithm with efficient materialization and maintenance then reduces I/Os and speeds up execution versus state-of-the-art methods. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h687881ddaa70ca58
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2011
Pagerank: 0.00010511472
Overall Rank: 1,480 | 90.09%
DOI: 10.14778/1921071.1921076

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Authors

1. Joao B. Rocha-Junior (Norwegian Institute of Technology)
2. Akrivi Vlachou (Norwegian Institute of Technology)
3. Christos Doulkeridis (Norwegian Institute of Technology)
4. Kjetil Norvag (Norwegian Institute of Technology)

BibTeX Citation

@article{rochajunior_vldb11,
        title = {{Efficient Processing of Top-k Spatial Preference Queries}},
        author = {Rocha-Junior, Joao B. and Vlachou, Akrivi and Doulkeridis, Christos and Norvag, Kjetil},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '11},
        doi = {10.14778/1921071.1921076},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1921071.1921076},
        year = {2011}
}

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2,957	Spatio-Textual Similarity Joins	2013	VLDB	7.799694e-05
3,054	Spatial Keyword Query Processing: An Experimental Evaluation	2013	VLDB	7.6909799e-05
3,099	A Scalable Algorithm for Maximizing Range Sum in Spatial Databases	2012	VLDB	7.6339784e-05
3,535	Collective Spatial Keyword Queries: A Distance Owner-Driven Approach	2013	SIGMOD	7.203751e-05
3,739	An Efficient Query Indexing Mechanism for Filtering Geo-Textual Data	2013	SIGMOD	7.0411292e-05
4,767	SKYPE: Top-k Spatial-keyword Publish/Subscribe Over Sliding Window	2016	VLDB	6.4142464e-05
6,852	Maximizing Bichromatic Reverse Spatial and Textual k Nearest Neighbor Queries	2016	VLDB	5.6477204e-05
7,742	Efficient Computation of Top-k Frequent Terms over Spatio-temporal Ranges	2017	SIGMOD	5.4468611e-05
8,023	Processing and Optimizing Main Memory Spatial-Keyword Queries	2016	VLDB	5.3888101e-05
8,219	WISK: A Workload-aware Learned Index for Spatial Keyword Queries	2023	SIGMOD	5.359172e-05
9,018	Querying Geo-Textual Data: Spatial Keyword Queries and Beyond	2016	SIGMOD	5.2223402e-05
11,291	GeoBloom: Revisiting Lightweight Models for Geographic Information Retrieval	2025	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
11,746	Effectiveness Perspectives and a Deep Relevance Model for Spatial Keyword Queries	2023	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05
12,326	Query Processing Techniques for Big Spatial-Keyword Data	2017	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05
12,605	GroupFinder: A New Approach to Top-K Point-of-Interest Group Retrieval	2013	VLDB	4.9605343e-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
2	R-Trees: A Dynamic Index Structure For Spatial Searching	1984	SIGMOD	0.0019892478
5	Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware [Extended Abstract]	2001	PODS	0.0010688884
547	Influence Sets Based on Reverse Nearest Neighbor Queries	2000	SIGMOD	0.00016545689
1,447	Continuous Monitoring of Top-k Queries over Sliding Windows	2006	SIGMOD	0.00010604169
2,819	On Computing Top-t Most Influential Spatial Sites	2005	VLDB	7.953478e-05
3,291	Kernel-Based Skyline Cardinality Estimation	2009	SIGMOD	7.4370263e-05

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