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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
0.00015331662
Overall Rank
638 | 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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818 Finding k-Dominant Skylines in High Dimensional Space 2006 SIGMOD 0.00013666302
1,125 Probabilistic Skylines on Uncertain Data 2007 VLDB 0.00011921893
1,214 Maximal Vector Computation in Large Data Sets 2005 VLDB 0.00011507029
1,395 Efficient Computation of the Skyline Cube 2005 VLDB 0.00010791312
1,643 Relaxing Join and Selection Queries 2006 VLDB 0.00010001728
1,895 Efficient Computation of Reverse Skyline Queries 2007 VLDB 9.4125147e-05
2,358 Catching the Best Views of Skyline: A Semantic Approach Based on Decisive Subspaces 2005 VLDB 8.5779705e-05
2,491 Efficient Skyline Computation over Low-Cardinality Domains 2007 VLDB 8.3882079e-05
2,566 Stratified Computation of Skylines with Partially-Ordered Domains 2005 SIGMOD 8.2845085e-05
2,786 DADA: A Data Cube for Dominant Relationship Analysis 2006 SIGMOD 8.0127919e-05
2,999 Multi-objective Query Processing for Database Systems 2004 VLDB 7.7661038e-05
3,193 Monochromatic and Bichromatic Reverse Skyline Search over Uncertain Databases 2008 SIGMOD 7.5476762e-05
3,318 Skyline Community Search in Multi-valued Networks 2018 SIGMOD 7.4289128e-05
3,340 Refreshing the Sky: The Compressed Skycube with Efficient Support for Frequent Updates 2006 SIGMOD 7.4045093e-05
4,253 Primitives for Workload Summarization and Implications for SQL 2003 VLDB 6.6985405e-05
4,707 Context-Sensitive Ranking 2006 SIGMOD 6.4560734e-05
5,075 ProgXe: Progressive Result Generation Framework for Multi-Criteria Decision Support Queries 2010 SIGMOD 6.284096e-05
5,550 Efficient Skyline Querying with Variable User Preferences on Nominal Attributes 2008 VLDB 6.0853646e-05
6,012 Call to Order: A Hierarchical Browsing Approach to Eliciting Users' Preference 2010 SIGMOD 5.9115096e-05
6,580 Parallel Computation of Skyline and Reverse Skyline Queries Using MapReduce 2013 VLDB 5.7421442e-05
6,603 Efficient Parallel Skyline Processing using Hyperplane Projections 2011 SIGMOD 5.7370343e-05
6,750 Categorical Skylines for Streaming Data 2008 SIGMOD 5.6881113e-05
8,486 Skyline Operator on Anti-correlated Distributions 2013 VLDB 5.330748e-05
8,554 Discovering the Skyline of Web Databases 2016 VLDB 5.3146691e-05
9,510 QSkycube: Efficient Skycube Computation Using Point-Based Space Partitioning 2011 VLDB 5.168414e-05
9,553 FHL-Cube: Multi-Constraint Shortest Path Querying with Flexible Combination of Constraints 2022 VLDB 5.1589731e-05
11,547 Directional Queries: Making Top-k Queries More Effective in Discovering Relevant Results 2024 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
12,426 Processing of Probabilistic Skyline Queries Using MapReduce 2015 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
12,571 eSkyline: Processing Skyline Queries over Encrypted Data 2013 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
12,697 ZINC: Efficient Indexing for Skyline Computation 2011 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
12,794 Minimizing the Communication Cost for Continuous Skyline Maintenance 2009 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
12,968 On Dominating Your Neighborhood Profitably 2007 VLDB 4.9769913e-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 0.0011402175
28 Nearest Neighbor Queries 1995 SIGMOD 0.00051292389
256 Efficient Progressive Skyline Computation 2001 VLDB 0.00022971009
313 Shooting Stars in the Sky: An Online Algorithm for Skyline Queries 2002 VLDB 0.00021301023
342 The Onion Technique: Indexing for Linear Optimization Queries 2000 SIGMOD 0.00020520649
413 Fuzzy Queries in Multimedia Database Systems 1998 PODS 0.00018686769
418 PREFER: A System for the Efficient Execution of Multiparametric Ranked Queries 2001 SIGMOD 0.00018609134
507 Supporting Incremental Join Queries on Ranked Inputs 2001 VLDB 0.00017093562
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