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ICDE Influential Paper Awards

ICDE 2012

Sanjay Agrawal, Surajit Chaudhuri, Gautam Das: DBXplorer: A System for Keyword-Based Search over Relational Databases. ICDE 2002

Gaurav Bhalotia, Arvind Hulgeri, Charuta Nakhe, Soumen Chakrabarti, S. Sudarshan: Keyword Searching and Browsing in Databases using BANKS. ICDE 2002

Citation: Together, these two papers from ICDE 2002 laid the foundations for keyword search over relational databases, paving the way for a significant body of follow-on work in the area of Information Retrieval and Databases. The solutions presented in these papers are elegant and highly effective.

ICDE 2011

Stephan Börzsönyi, Donald Kossmann, Konrad Stocker: The Skyline Operator, ICDE 2001

Citation: Skyline computation (a.k.a. the maximum vector problem) is a fundamental concept in multi-criteria decision making. This highly influential paper opened a new research topic in the database community. It framed the skyline concept in a database setting and offered a study of fundamental techniques for skyline query processing. The paper laid a solid foundation for a multitude of studies that have refined the concept of skylining and proposed efficient implementations in a variety of settings.

ICDE 2009

Kin-pong Chan, Ada Wai-Chee Fu: Efficient Time Series Matching by Wavelets, ICDE 1999.

Citation: This paper proposed the first efficient time-series indexing method by making use of discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and greatly influenced subsequent work on indexing of time series. It also showed that DFT (Discrete Fourier Transform) may not be the best representation for dimensionality reduction in time series, leading to significant research into alternative representations as well as wavelet-based scalable data analysis.

ICDE 2008

Rakesh Agrawal and Ramakrishnan Srikant, Mining Sequential Patterns, ICDE 1995.

Citation: This paper launched a new area in data mining. Sequential pattern mining has since become an important and active area with a variety of applications and much published work. The paper is a milestone in the field of data mining.

ICDE 2007

Kenneth Salem and Hector Garcia-Molina, Disk Striping, ICDE 1986.

Citation: This early paper on disk striping significantly influenced subsequent work on RAID storage.

ICDE 2006

Jim Gray, Adam Bosworth, Andrew Layman, Hamid Pirahesh: Data Cube: A Relational Aggregation Operator Generalizing Group-By, Cross-Tab, and Sub-Total, ICDE 1996

Citation: This seminal paper defined a simple SQL construct that enables one to efficiently compute aggregations over all combinations of group-by columns in a single query, where previous approaches required multiple queries. This feature has had significant impact on industry and is now incorporated in all major database systems.

ICDE 2005

Goetz Graefe, William J. McKenna: The Volcano Optimizer Generator: Extensibility and Efficient Search. ICDE 1993.

Citation: This seminal paper laid the foundation for transformation-based query optimizers. Volcano was the first optimizer framework based on this approach and inspired several others. Multiple commercial database systems rely on transformation-based query optimizers.