BOAT—Optimistic Decision Tree Construction

Summary: BOAT uses optimistic, subset-based initial tree construction with two scans per level, yielding large speedups. It refines to the exact tree and supports cheap incremental updates (insertions/deletions) that preserve the full-rebuild result. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h936c167f7d788799
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1999
Pagerank: 7.9195647e-05
Overall Rank: 2,871 | 80.71%
DOI: 10.1145/304182.304197

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Johannes Gehrke (University of Wisconsin)
2. Venkatesh Ganti (University of Wisconsin)
3. Raghu Ramakrishnan (University of Wisconsin)
4. Wei-Yin Loh (University of Wisconsin)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{gehrke_sigmod99,
        title = {{BOAT—Optimistic Decision Tree Construction}},
        author = {Gehrke, Johannes and Ganti, Venkatesh and Ramakrishnan, Raghu and Loh, Wei-Yin},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '99},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/304182.304197},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/304182.304197},
        year = {1999}
}

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Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
566	On Computing Correlated Aggregates Over Continual Data Streams	2001	SIGMOD	0.00016288241
1,732	Addressing Diverse User Preferences in SQL-Query-Result Navigation	2007	SIGMOD	9.7633187e-05
2,243	Automatic Categorization of Query Results	2004	SIGMOD	8.7643883e-05
2,605	PLANET: Massively Parallel Learning of Tree Ensembles with MapReduce	2009	VLDB	8.2273571e-05
7,285	Lowering the Latency of Data Processing Pipelines Through FPGA based Hardware Acceleration	2020	VLDB	5.5639701e-05
8,852	Building Statistical Models and Scoring with UDFs	2007	SIGMOD	5.2632106e-05
10,068	Fast Search-By-Classification for Large-Scale Databases Using Index-Aware Decision Trees and Random Forests	2023	VLDB	5.0851868e-05

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
452	An Interval Classifier for Database Mining Applications	1992	VLDB	0.00018010465
1,519	SPRINT: A Scalable Parallel Classifier for Data Mining	1996	VLDB	0.00010389098
2,034	RainForest - A Framework for Fast Decision Tree Construction of Large Datasets	1998	VLDB	9.152958e-05
4,602	Constructing Efficient Decision Trees by Using Optimized Numeric Association Rules	1996	VLDB	6.5046073e-05
4,666	Data Mining Using Two-Dimensional Optimized Association Rules: Scheme, Algorithms, and Visualization	1996	SIGMOD	6.4770096e-05
4,876	Mining Optimized Association Rules for Numeric Attributes	1996	PODS	6.3698245e-05
5,155	Algorithms for Mining Association Rules for Binary Segmentations of Huge Categorical Databases	1998	VLDB	6.2487299e-05
5,302	PUBLIC: A Decision Tree Classifier that Integrates Building and Pruning	1998	VLDB	6.1869634e-05

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