Efficient Computation of the Skyline Cube

Summary: Computes the Skycube—the skylines for every nonempty dimension subset—by exploiting dependencies and sharing work across related queries. Bottom-Up and Top-Down algorithms substantially outperform independent, shared-nothing skyline computation. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: ha13c4358243d34af
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2005
Pagerank: 0.0001075604
Overall Rank: 1,401 | 90.62%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Yidong Yuan (University of New South Wales)
2. Xuemin Lin (University of New South Wales)
3. Qing Liu (University of New South Wales)
4. Wei Wang (University of New South Wales)
5. Jeffrey Xu Yu (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
6. Qing Zhang (University of New South Wales)

BibTeX Citation

@article{yuan_vldb05,
        title = {{Efficient Computation of the Skyline Cube}},
        author = {Yuan, Yidong and Lin, Xuemin and Liu, Qing and Wang, Wei and Yu, Jeffrey Xu and Zhang, Qing},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '05},
        volume = {31},
        pages = {241--252},
        year = {2005}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 18 of 18 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
820	Finding k-Dominant Skylines in High Dimensional Space	2006	SIGMOD	0.00013621724
1,126	Probabilistic Skylines on Uncertain Data	2007	VLDB	0.00011888563
1,649	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
2,795	DADA: A Data Cube for Dominant Relationship Analysis	2006	SIGMOD	7.9865595e-05
2,904	Efficient Processing of Top-k Dominating Queries on Multi-Dimensional Data	2007	VLDB	7.8723013e-05
3,291	Kernel-Based Skyline Cardinality Estimation	2009	SIGMOD	7.4370263e-05
3,346	Refreshing the Sky: The Compressed Skycube with Efficient Support for Frequent Updates	2006	SIGMOD	7.3804433e-05
4,258	Creating Competitive Products	2009	VLDB	6.683217e-05
5,565	Efficient Skyline Querying with Variable User Preferences on Nominal Attributes	2008	VLDB	6.0652619e-05
5,606	Scalable Skyline Computation Using Object-based Space Partitioning	2009	SIGMOD	6.0509937e-05
7,068	Computing Closed Skycubes	2010	VLDB	5.59253e-05
7,867	A Shared Execution Strategy for Multiple Pattern Mining Requests over Streaming Data	2009	VLDB	5.4207756e-05
9,538	QSkycube: Efficient Skycube Computation Using Point-Based Space Partitioning	2011	VLDB	5.151324e-05
12,325	Template Skycube Algorithms for Heterogeneous Parallelism on Multicore and GPU Architectures	2017	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05
12,837	Minimizing the Communication Cost for Continuous Skyline Maintenance	2009	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 12 of 12 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
214	On the Computation of Multidimensional Aggregates	1996	VLDB	0.00024576033
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
324	An Array-Based Algorithm for Simultaneous Multidimensional Aggregates	1997	SIGMOD	0.00020934349
404	Bottom-Up Computation of Sparse and Iceberg CUBEs	1999	SIGMOD	0.00019034819
419	PREFER: A System for the Efficient Execution of Multiparametric Ranked Queries	2001	SIGMOD	0.00018558415
640	An Optimal and Progressive Algorithm for Skyline Queries	2003	SIGMOD	0.00015286314
1,073	Fast Computation of Sparse Datacubes	1997	VLDB	0.00012140291
1,216	Maximal Vector Computation in Large Data Sets	2005	VLDB	0.00011469322
2,367	Catching the Best Views of Skyline: A Semantic Approach Based on Decisive Subspaces	2005	VLDB	8.549962e-05
2,550	Star-Cubing: Computing Iceberg Cubes by Top-Down and Bottom-Up Integration	2003	VLDB	8.2869953e-05
3,014	Multi-objective Query Processing for Database Systems	2004	VLDB	7.740485e-05

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