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EFQ: Why-Not Answer Polynomials in Action

Summary: EFQ uses Why-Not Answer polynomials to provide complete explanations for missing query results. It enables automatic, relevant query refinements guided by these polynomials, aiding expert debugging of data-access queries. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
11098
Venue
VLDB
Year
2015
Pagerank
5.0058435e-05
Overall Rank
6,573 | 54.28%
DOI
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Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
6,975 NLProveNAns: Natural Language Provenance for Non-Answers 2018 VLDB 4.8772572e-05
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
487 Why Not? 2009 SIGMOD 0.00022050218
652 On the Provenance of Non-Answers to Queries over Extracted Data 2008 VLDB 0.00018634477
1,125 How to ConQueR Why-Not Questions 2010 SIGMOD 0.00013845652
2,562 Explaining Missing Answers to SPJUA Queries 2010 VLDB 8.5386194e-05
2,790 Artemis: A System for Analyzing Missing Answers 2009 VLDB 8.1239026e-05
3,095 Answering Why-not Questions on Reverse Top-k Queries 2015 VLDB 7.5692859e-05
3,197 A Probabilistic Optimization Framework for the Empty-Answer Problem 2013 VLDB 7.3955829e-05
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