This table lists the top three most cited papers published in each IEEE ICDE conference during 2000-2010. It was generated in July 12, 2014 and latest updated in July 1, 2016. It may contain errors, comments are more than welcome!   

# Author list Title July 12, 2014 July 1, 2016

ICDE 2000

1 Ling Liu, Calton Pu, Wei Han XWRAP: An XML-Enabled Wrapper Construction System for Web Information Sources Cited by 542 Cited by 631
2 Edith Cohen, Mayur Datar, Shinji Fujiwara, Aristides Gionis, Piotr Indyk, Rajeev Motwani, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Cheng Yang Finding Interesting Associations without Support Pruning Cited by 393 Cited by 462
3 Chang-Shing Perng, Haixun Wang, Sylvia R. Zhang, Douglas Stott Parker Jr. Landmarks: a New Model for Similarity-based Pattern Querying in Time Series Databases Cited by 296 Cited by 339

ICDE 2001

1 Jian Pei, Jiawei Han, Behzad Mortazavi-Asl, Helen Pinto, Qiming Chen, Umeshwar Dayal, Meichun Hsu PrefixSpan: Mining Sequential Patterns by Prefix-Projected Growth Cited by 1725 Cited by 2169
2 Stephan Börzsönyi, Donald Kossmann, Konrad Stocker The Skyline Operator Cited by 1527 Cited by 1986
3 Douglas Burdick, Manuel Calimlim, Johannes Gehrke MAFIA: A Maximal Frequent Itemset Algorithm for Transactional Databases Cited by 762 Cited by 875
ICDE 2002
1 Sergey Melnik, Hector Garcia-Molina, Erhard Rahm Similarity Flooding: A Versatile Graph Matching Algorithm and Its Application to Schema Matching Cited by 1348 Cited by 1585
2 Shurug Al-Khalifa, H. V. Jagadish, Jignesh M. Patel, Yuqing Wu, Nick Koudas, Divesh Srivastava Structural Joins: A Primitive for Efficient XML Query Pattern Matching Cited by 1051 Cited by 1127
3 Gaurav Bhalotia, Arvind Hulgeri, Charuta Nakhe, Soumen Chakrabarti, S. Sudarshan Searching and Browsing in Databases using BANKS Cited by 758 Cited by 968
ICDE 2003
1 Beverly Yang, Hector Garcia-Molina Designing a Super-Peer Network Cited by 1147 Cited by 1233
2 Spiros Papadimitriou, Hiroyuki Kitagawa, Phillip B. Gibbons, Christos Faloutsos LOCI: Fast Outlier Detection Using the Local Correlation Integral Cited by 529 Cited by 661
3 Alon Y. Halevy, Zachary G. Ives, Dan Suciu, Igor Tatarinov Schema Mediation in Peer Data Management Systems Cited by 504 Cited by 546

ICDE 2004

1 Jeffrey Considine, Feifei Li, George Kollios, John W. Byers Approximate Aggregation Techniques for Sensor Databases Cited by 597 Cited by 657
2 Jianyong Wang, Jiawei Han BIDE: Efficient Mining of Frequent Closed Sequences Cited by 477 Cited by 596
3 Brian Babcock, Mayur Datar, Rajeev Motwani Load Shedding for Aggregation Queries over Data Streams Cited by 316 Cited by 355

ICDE 2005

1

Roberto J. Bayardo Jr., Rakesh Agrawal Data Privacy through Optimal k-Anonymization Cited by 828 Cited by 1024

2

Benjamin C. M. Fung, Ke Wang, Philip S. Yu Top-Down Specialization for Information and Privacy Preservation Cited by 451 Cited by 535

3

Jayant Madhavan, Philip A. Bernstein, AnHai Doan, Alon Y. Halevy Corpus-based Schema Matching Cited by 374 Cited by 410

ICDE 2006

1

Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Johannes Gehrke, Daniel Kifer, Muthuramakrishnan Venkitasubramaniam  l-Diversity: Privacy Beyond k-Anonymity Cited by 2045 Cited by 2864

2

Kristen LeFevre, David J. DeWitt, Raghu Ramakrishnan Mondrian Multidimensional K-Anonymity Cited by 711 Cited by 911

3

David Chu, Amol Deshpande, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Wei Hong Approximate Data Collection in Sensor Networks using Probabilistic Models Cited by 394 Cited by 460
ICDE 2007

1

Ninghui Li, Tiancheng Li, Suresh Venkatasubramanian t-Closeness: Privacy Beyond k-Anonymity and l-Diversity Cited by 1114 Cited by 1580

2

Mohamed A. Soliman, Ihab F. Ilyas, Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang Top-k Query Processing in Uncertain Databases Cited by 365 Cited by 433

3

Christopher Re, Nilesh N. Dalvi, Dan Suciu Efficient Top-k Query Evaluation on Probabilistic Data Cited by 332 Cited by 385
ICDE 2008

1

Bin Zhou, Jian Pei Preserving Privacy in Social Networks Against Neighborhood Attacks Cited by 367 Cited by 547

2

Lyublena Antova, Thomas Jansen, Christoph Koch, Dan Olteanu Fast and Simple Relational Processing of Uncertain Data Cited by 206 Cited by 241

3

Man Lung Yiu, Christian S. Jensen, Xuegang Huang, Hua Lu  SpaceTwist: Managing the Trade-Offs Among Location Privacy, Query Performance, and Query Accuracy in Mobile Services Cited by 197 Cited by 295

ICDE 2009

1

Michael Schmidt, Thomas Hornung, Georg Lausen, Christoph Pinkel SP^2Bench: A SPARQL Performance Benchmark Cited by 220 Cited by 311

2

Zhifeng Bao, Tok Wang Ling, Bo Chen, Jiaheng Lu Effective XML Keyword Search with Relevance Oriented Ranking Cited by 163 Cited by 203

3

Thanh Tran, Haofen Wang, Sebastian Rudolph, Philipp Cimiano Top-k Exploration of Query Candidates for Efficient Keyword Search on Graph-Shaped (RDF) Data Cited by 155 Cited by 212

ICDE 2010

1

Ashish Thusoo, Joydeep Sen Sarma, Namit Jain, Zheng Shao, Prasad Chakka, Ning Zhang, Suresh Anthony, Hao Liu, Raghotham Murthy Hive - a petabyte scale data warehouse using Hadoop Cited by 332 Cited by 632

2

Xiaokui Xiao, Guozhang Wang, Johannes Gehrke Differential privacy via wavelet transforms Cited by 142 Cited by 233
3 Kristi Morton, Abram L. Friesen, Magdalena Balazinska, Dan Grossman Estimating the progress of MapReduce pipelines Cited by 70 Cited by 105