Data is Dead… Without What-If Models
Summary: Proposes a model-and-data paradigm pairing what-if models with data-centric DBs to enable decisions under uncertainty. Identifies extensions in data integration, query processing, and collaborative analytics to fuse data and models for decisions. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Peter J. Haas (IBM)
- 2. Paul P. Maglio (IBM)
- 3. Patricia G. Selinger (IBM)
- 4. Wang-Chiew Tan (IBM; University of California Santa Cruz)
BibTeX Citation
@article{haas_vldb11,
title = {{Data is Dead… Without What-If Models}},
author = {Haas, Peter J. and Maglio, Paul P. and Selinger, Patricia G. and Tan, Wang-Chiew},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '11},
volume = {4},
number = {12},
pages = {1486--1489},
doi = {10.14778/3402755.3402802},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3402755.3402802},
year = {2011}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10,391 | Privacy-preserving and Verifiable Causal Prescriptive Analytics | 2026 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 11,513 | Augmenting Decision Making via Interactive What-If Analysis | 2022 | CIDR | 5.093636e-05 |
| 12,166 | Model-Data Ecosystems: Challenges, Tools, and Trends | 2014 | PODS | 5.093636e-05 |
| 12,215 | Towards Building Wind Tunnels for Data Center Design | 2014 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 12,218 | Υ-DB: Managing scientific hypotheses as uncertain data | 2014 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 238 | MCDB: A Monte Carlo Approach to Managing Uncertain Data | 2008 | SIGMOD | 0.0002369322 |
| 469 | Clio Grows Up: From Research Prototype to Industrial Tool | 2005 | SIGMOD | 0.00017973925 |
| 4,047 | Behavioral Simulations in MapReduce | 2010 | VLDB | 6.9380465e-05 |
| 9,114 | E = MC^3: Managing Uncertain Enterprise Data in a Cluster-Computing Environment | 2009 | SIGMOD | 5.3215443e-05 |
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