Branch-and-Bound Algorithm for Reverse Top-k Queries

Summary: Proposes a branch-and-bound algorithm for reverse top-k queries that avoids per-user top-k executions and full preference scans. Leverages pruning properties and optimizations; experiments show large gains over RTA on large preference collections. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h773b823a88697c30
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2013
Pagerank: 6.4983802e-05
Overall Rank: 4,616 | 68.98%
DOI: 10.1145/2463676.2465278

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Authors

1. Akrivi Vlachou (Athena; Norwegian Institute of Technology)
2. Christos Doulkeridis (Norwegian Institute of Technology; University of Piraeus)
3. Kjetil Nørvåg (Norwegian Institute of Technology)
4. Yannis Kotidis (Athens University of Economics and Business)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{vlachou_sigmod13,
        title = {{Branch-and-Bound Algorithm for Reverse Top-k Queries}},
        author = {Vlachou, Akrivi and Doulkeridis, Christos and Nørvåg, Kjetil and Kotidis, Yannis},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '13},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2463676.2465278},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2463676.2465278},
        year = {2013}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,958	Answering Why-not Questions on Reverse Top-k Queries	2015	VLDB	7.80653e-05
5,359	Why Not Yet: Fixing a Top-k Ranking that Is Not Fair to Individuals	2023	VLDB	6.1608586e-05
5,916	Reverse k-Ranks Query	2014	VLDB	5.9472799e-05
6,382	Maximum Rank Query	2015	VLDB	5.805942e-05
6,972	Global Immutable Region Computation	2014	SIGMOD	5.6281923e-05
9,002	Creating Top Ranking Options in the Continuous Option and Preference Space	2019	VLDB	5.23944e-05
9,181	Determining the Impact Regions of Competing Options in Preference Space	2017	SIGMOD	5.2115802e-05
10,091	On m-Impact Regions and Standing Top-k Influence Problems	2021	SIGMOD	5.0806786e-05
11,880	tau-LevelIndex: Towards Efficient Query Processing in Continuous Preference Space	2022	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 14 of 14 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5	Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware [Extended Abstract]	2001	PODS	0.0010679903
111	Optimizing Multi-Feature Queries for Image Databases	2000	VLDB	0.00032668973
342	The Onion Technique: Indexing for Linear Optimization Queries	2000	SIGMOD	0.00020520649
418	PREFER: A System for the Efficient Execution of Multiparametric Ranked Queries	2001	SIGMOD	0.00018609134
545	Influence Sets Based on Reverse Nearest Neighbor Queries	2000	SIGMOD	0.00016599925
643	Evaluating Top-k Selection Queries	1999	VLDB	0.0001521012
1,895	Efficient Computation of Reverse Skyline Queries	2007	VLDB	9.4125147e-05
2,485	Processing a Large Number of Continuous Preference Top-k Queries	2012	SIGMOD	8.3954142e-05
2,786	DADA: A Data Cube for Dominant Relationship Analysis	2006	SIGMOD	8.0127919e-05
3,070	Towards Robust Indexing for Ranked Queries	2006	VLDB	7.6831067e-05
3,193	Monochromatic and Bichromatic Reverse Skyline Search over Uncertain Databases	2008	SIGMOD	7.5476762e-05
3,653	Best Position Algorithms for Top-k Queries	2007	VLDB	7.1279819e-05
4,242	Creating Competitive Products	2009	VLDB	6.705389e-05
4,548	Identifying the Most Influential Data Objects with Reverse Top-k Queries	2010	VLDB	6.5394775e-05

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