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An Optimal and Progressive Algorithm for Skyline Queries

Summary: BBS: a branch-and-bound progressive skyline algorithm using NN search; IO-optimal with a single R-tree access and no duplicates. Analysis and experiments show BBS outperforms NN by orders of magnitude across distributions and supports multiple skyline queries. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h8b59d3eb0935065f
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2003
Pagerank
0.00015286314
Overall Rank
640 | 95.72%
DOI
10.1145/872757.872814

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{papadias_sigmod03,
        title = {{An Optimal and Progressive Algorithm for Skyline Queries}},
        author = {Papadias, Dimitris and Tao, Yufei and Fu, Greg and Seeger, Bernhard},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '03},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/872757.872814},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/872757.872814},
        year = {2003}
}

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Showing 32 of 32 citing papers.

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820 Finding k-Dominant Skylines in High Dimensional Space 2006 SIGMOD 0.00013621724
1,126 Probabilistic Skylines on Uncertain Data 2007 VLDB 0.00011888563
1,216 Maximal Vector Computation in Large Data Sets 2005 VLDB 0.00011469322
1,401 Efficient Computation of the Skyline Cube 2005 VLDB 0.0001075604
1,649 Relaxing Join and Selection Queries 2006 VLDB 9.9699016e-05
1,905 Efficient Computation of Reverse Skyline Queries 2007 VLDB 9.3819594e-05
2,367 Catching the Best Views of Skyline: A Semantic Approach Based on Decisive Subspaces 2005 VLDB 8.549962e-05
2,499 Efficient Skyline Computation over Low-Cardinality Domains 2007 VLDB 8.3611036e-05
2,573 Stratified Computation of Skylines with Partially-Ordered Domains 2005 SIGMOD 8.2576057e-05
2,795 DADA: A Data Cube for Dominant Relationship Analysis 2006 SIGMOD 7.9865595e-05
3,014 Multi-objective Query Processing for Database Systems 2004 VLDB 7.740485e-05
3,203 Monochromatic and Bichromatic Reverse Skyline Search over Uncertain Databases 2008 SIGMOD 7.5227628e-05
3,221 Skyline Community Search in Multi-valued Networks 2018 SIGMOD 7.5060153e-05
3,346 Refreshing the Sky: The Compressed Skycube with Efficient Support for Frequent Updates 2006 SIGMOD 7.3804433e-05
4,268 Primitives for Workload Summarization and Implications for SQL 2003 VLDB 6.6784565e-05
4,722 Context-Sensitive Ranking 2006 SIGMOD 6.4347491e-05
5,095 ProgXe: Progressive Result Generation Framework for Multi-Criteria Decision Support Queries 2010 SIGMOD 6.263322e-05
5,565 Efficient Skyline Querying with Variable User Preferences on Nominal Attributes 2008 VLDB 6.0652619e-05
6,024 Call to Order: A Hierarchical Browsing Approach to Eliciting Users' Preference 2010 SIGMOD 5.8919629e-05
6,588 Parallel Computation of Skyline and Reverse Skyline Queries Using MapReduce 2013 VLDB 5.723467e-05
6,609 Efficient Parallel Skyline Processing using Hyperplane Projections 2011 SIGMOD 5.718077e-05
6,770 Categorical Skylines for Streaming Data 2008 SIGMOD 5.6693028e-05
8,501 Skyline Operator on Anti-correlated Distributions 2013 VLDB 5.3131213e-05
8,557 Discovering the Skyline of Web Databases 2016 VLDB 5.3017168e-05
9,538 QSkycube: Efficient Skycube Computation Using Point-Based Space Partitioning 2011 VLDB 5.151324e-05
9,578 FHL-Cube: Multi-Constraint Shortest Path Querying with Flexible Combination of Constraints 2022 VLDB 5.1419143e-05
11,596 Directional Queries: Making Top-k Queries More Effective in Discovering Relevant Results 2024 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
12,469 Processing of Probabilistic Skyline Queries Using MapReduce 2015 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
12,614 eSkyline: Processing Skyline Queries over Encrypted Data 2013 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
12,740 ZINC: Efficient Indexing for Skyline Computation 2011 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
12,837 Minimizing the Communication Cost for Continuous Skyline Maintenance 2009 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
13,010 On Dominating Your Neighborhood Profitably 2007 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 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
28 Nearest Neighbor Queries 1995 SIGMOD 0.00051134355
258 Efficient Progressive Skyline Computation 2001 VLDB 0.00022896896
317 Shooting Stars in the Sky: An Online Algorithm for Skyline Queries 2002 VLDB 0.00021232519
344 The Onion Technique: Indexing for Linear Optimization Queries 2000 SIGMOD 0.00020463118
413 Fuzzy Queries in Multimedia Database Systems 1998 PODS 0.00018638335
419 PREFER: A System for the Efficient Execution of Multiparametric Ranked Queries 2001 SIGMOD 0.00018558415
511 Supporting Incremental Join Queries on Ranked Inputs 2001 VLDB 0.00017061618
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