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: 0.00010796403
Overall Rank: 1,394 | 90.63%
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
817	Finding k-Dominant Skylines in High Dimensional Space	2006	SIGMOD	0.00013672764
1,124	Probabilistic Skylines on Uncertain Data	2007	VLDB	0.00011927351
1,643	Relaxing Join and Selection Queries	2006	VLDB	0.00010006399
1,892	Efficient Computation of Reverse Skyline Queries	2007	VLDB	9.4166991e-05
2,357	Catching the Best Views of Skyline: A Semantic Approach Based on Decisive Subspaces	2005	VLDB	8.5820096e-05
2,491	Efficient Skyline Computation over Low-Cardinality Domains	2007	VLDB	8.3921786e-05
2,786	DADA: A Data Cube for Dominant Relationship Analysis	2006	SIGMOD	8.0165674e-05
2,893	Efficient Processing of Top-k Dominating Queries on Multi-Dimensional Data	2007	VLDB	7.9019071e-05
3,281	Kernel-Based Skyline Cardinality Estimation	2009	SIGMOD	7.4583561e-05
3,340	Refreshing the Sky: The Compressed Skycube with Efficient Support for Frequent Updates	2006	SIGMOD	7.4080086e-05
4,241	Creating Competitive Products	2009	VLDB	6.7085648e-05
5,548	Efficient Skyline Querying with Variable User Preferences on Nominal Attributes	2008	VLDB	6.0882467e-05
5,590	Scalable Skyline Computation Using Object-based Space Partitioning	2009	SIGMOD	6.0739438e-05
7,046	Computing Closed Skycubes	2010	VLDB	5.6137413e-05
7,847	A Shared Execution Strategy for Multiple Pattern Mining Requests over Streaming Data	2009	VLDB	5.4413352e-05
9,499	QSkycube: Efficient Skycube Computation Using Point-Based Space Partitioning	2011	VLDB	5.1708619e-05
12,276	Template Skycube Algorithms for Heterogeneous Parallelism on Multicore and GPU Architectures	2017	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
12,788	Minimizing the Communication Cost for Continuous Skyline Maintenance	2009	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-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	0.00024656893
256	Efficient Progressive Skyline Computation	2001	VLDB	0.00022981799
313	Shooting Stars in the Sky: An Online Algorithm for Skyline Queries	2002	VLDB	0.00021311041
323	An Array-Based Algorithm for Simultaneous Multidimensional Aggregates	1997	SIGMOD	0.0002100085
403	Bottom-Up Computation of Sparse and Iceberg CUBEs	1999	SIGMOD	0.0001910396
418	PREFER: A System for the Efficient Execution of Multiparametric Ranked Queries	2001	SIGMOD	0.00018617842
638	An Optimal and Progressive Algorithm for Skyline Queries	2003	SIGMOD	0.00015338893
1,068	Fast Computation of Sparse Datacubes	1997	VLDB	0.00012185465
1,213	Maximal Vector Computation in Large Data Sets	2005	VLDB	0.00011512468
2,357	Catching the Best Views of Skyline: A Semantic Approach Based on Decisive Subspaces	2005	VLDB	8.5820096e-05
2,544	Star-Cubing: Computing Iceberg Cubes by Top-Down and Bottom-Up Integration	2003	VLDB	8.3179863e-05
2,996	Multi-objective Query Processing for Database Systems	2004	VLDB	7.7697801e-05

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