Explanation-Based Auditing

Summary: Introduces explanation-based auditing: automatically generate rationale for data-access events using templates inferred from database content (e.g., appointments). Learns collaborative user groups to improve explanations; evaluated on EHR logs with >94% explainability. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 10519
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2012
Pagerank: 7.7528586e-05
Overall Rank: 3,105 | 78.70%
DOI: 10.14778/2047485.2047486

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Daniel Fabbri (University of Michigan)
2. Kristen LeFevre (University of Michigan)

BibTeX Citation

@article{fabbri_vldb12,
        title = {{Explanation-Based Auditing}},
        author = {Fabbri, Daniel and LeFevre, Kristen},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '12},
        volume = {5},
        number = {1},
        doi = {10.14778/2047485.2047486},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2047485.2047486},
        year = {2012}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
663	A Formal Approach to Finding Explanations for Database Queries	2014	SIGMOD	0.00015174751
2,195	Explaining Query Answers with Explanation-Ready Databases	2016	VLDB	8.9713779e-05
2,663	Partial Results in Database Systems	2014	SIGMOD	8.2818137e-05
2,759	Data X-Ray: A Diagnostic Tool for Data Errors	2015	SIGMOD	8.1577506e-05
3,991	The Complexity of Resilience and Responsibility for Self-Join-Free Conjunctive Queries	2016	VLDB	6.9695922e-05
4,959	QFix: Diagnosing Errors through Query Histories	2017	SIGMOD	6.4283324e-05
6,461	Explain3D: Explaining Disagreements in Disjoint Datasets	2019	VLDB	5.8718966e-05
12,223	Stop That Query! The Need for Managing Data Use	2013	CIDR	5.093636e-05
12,248	The Power of Data Use Management in Action	2013	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
27	Fast Algorithms for Mining Association Rules	1994	VLDB	0.00052255472
161	Mining Frequent Patterns without Candidate Generation	2000	SIGMOD	0.00027981772
385	Why Not?	2009	SIGMOD	0.00019455743
552	Extending Query Rewriting Techniques for Fine-Grained Access Control	2004	SIGMOD	0.00016630306
980	Integrating Association Rule Mining with Relational Database Systems: Alternatives and Implications	1998	SIGMOD	0.00012844074
2,107	Auditing Compliance with a Hippocratic Database	2004	VLDB	9.1554362e-05
5,711	PolicyReplay: Misconfiguration-Response Queries for Data Breach Reporting	2010	VLDB	6.1128939e-05
6,705	Efficient Auditing For Complex SQL queries	2011	SIGMOD	5.7970786e-05

Semantically Similar Papers

#	Overall Rank	Paper	Year	Venue
1	12,291	On Scaling Up Sensitive Data Auditing	2013	VLDB
2	5,054	Explainable AI: Foundations, Applications, Opportunities for Data Management Research	2022	SIGMOD
3	12,809	Privacy in Data Systems	2003	PODS
4	4,936	Tamper Detection in Audit Logs	2004	VLDB
5	2,401	Simulatable Auditing	2005	PODS
6	8,792	Auditing Disclosure by Relevance Ranking	2007	SIGMOD
7	3,296	Towards Robustness in Query Auditing	2006	VLDB
8	6,365	Explainable Security for Relational Databases	2014	SIGMOD
9	6,705	Efficient Auditing For Complex SQL queries	2011	SIGMOD
10	2,107	Auditing Compliance with a Hippocratic Database	2004	VLDB