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)
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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 6,975 | NLProveNAns: Natural Language Provenance for Non-Answers | 2018 | VLDB | 4.8772572e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.
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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Semantically Similar Papers
| Overall Rank | Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,982 | FastQRE: Fast Query Reverse Engineering | 2018 | SIGMOD | 7.7801984e-05 |
| 12,024 | Mirror mirror on the wall, which query's fairest of them all? | 2013 | CIDR | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 3,095 | Answering Why-not Questions on Reverse Top-k Queries | 2015 | VLDB | 7.5692859e-05 |
| 9,623 | Qr-Hint: Actionable Hints Towards Correcting Wrong SQL Queries | 2024 | SIGMOD | 4.3161663e-05 |
| 5,445 | QFix: Diagnosing Errors through Query Histories | 2017 | SIGMOD | 5.5020909e-05 |
| 942 | A Formal Approach to Finding Explanations for Database Queries | 2014 | SIGMOD | 0.00015155714 |
| 11,837 | QFix: Demonstrating Error Diagnosis in Query Histories | 2016 | SIGMOD | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 5,418 | High-Level Why-Not Explanations using Ontologies | 2015 | PODS | 5.5178123e-05 |
| 487 | Why Not? | 2009 | SIGMOD | 0.00022050218 |
| 1,125 | How to ConQueR Why-Not Questions | 2010 | SIGMOD | 0.00013845652 |