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22nd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'06)
p. 65
SUBSKY: Efficient Computation of Skylines in Subspaces
Yufei Tao, City Unversity of Hong Kong
Xiaokui Xiao, City University of Hong Kong
Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada
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Given a set of multi-dimensional points, the skyline contains
the best points according to any preference function
that is monotone on all axes. In practice, applications that
require skyline analysis usually provide numerous candidate
attributes, and various users depending on their interests
may issue queries regarding different (small) subsets
of the dimensions. Formally, given a relation with a large
number (e.g.,ge 10) of attributes, a query aims at finding the
skyline in an arbitrary subspace with a low dimensionality
(e.g., 2).
The existing algorithms do not support subspace skyline
retrieval efficiently because they (i) require scanning the entire
database at least once, or (ii) are optimized for one
particular subspace but incur significant overhead for other
subspaces. In this paper, we propose a technique SUBSKY
which settles the problem using a single B-tree, and can be
implemented in any relational database. The core of SUBSKY
is a transformation that converts multi-dimensional
data to 1D values, and enables several effective pruning
heuristics. Extensive experiments with real data confirm
that SUBSKY outperforms alternative approaches significantly
in both efficiency and scalability.
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Citation:
Yufei Tao, Xiaokui Xiao, Jian Pei,
"SUBSKY: Efficient Computation of Skylines in Subspaces,"
icde,
p. 65,
22nd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'06),
2006
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