Selective Provenance for Datalog Programs Using Top-K Queries

Summary: Top-k how-provenance for Datalog via a tree-pattern selection and ranking over derivations. An instrumented, bottom-up evaluation generates only relevant provenance, achieving polynomial data complexity and linear-time top-k construction, with scalable experiments. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11206
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2015
Pagerank: 5.8333865e-05
Overall Rank: 6,587 | 54.81%
DOI: 10.14778/2824032.2824040

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Authors

1. Daniel Deutch (Tel Aviv University)
2. Amir Gilad (Tel Aviv University)
3. Yuval Moskovitch (Tel Aviv University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{deutch_vldb15,
        title = {{Selective Provenance for Datalog Programs Using Top-K Queries}},
        author = {Deutch, Daniel and Gilad, Amir and Moskovitch, Yuval},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '15},
        volume = {8},
        number = {12},
        pages = {1394--1405},
        doi = {10.14778/2824032.2824040},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2824032.2824040},
        year = {2015}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 10 of 10 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,602	Provenance for Natural Language Queries	2017	VLDB	6.6107638e-05
4,845	Explaining Outputs in Modern Data Analytics	2016	VLDB	6.4818607e-05
6,664	On Multiple Semantics for Declarative Database Repairs	2020	SIGMOD	5.8090585e-05
7,175	NLProveNAns: Natural Language Provenance for Non-Answers	2018	VLDB	5.6820504e-05
7,907	Provenance-Enabled Explainable AI	2024	SIGMOD	5.5181056e-05
8,509	Hypothetical Reasoning via Provenance Abstraction	2019	SIGMOD	5.4120069e-05
9,763	NLProv: Natural Language Provenance	2016	VLDB	5.2234888e-05
10,436	Causal Explanations for Disparate Trends: Where and Why?	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
11,876	Datalignment: Ontology Schema Alignment Through Datalog Containment	2019	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,938	Provenance Summaries for Answers and Non-Answers	2018	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 14 of 14 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
17	Provenance Semirings	2007	PODS	0.00059843817
663	A Formal Approach to Finding Explanations for Database Queries	2014	SIGMOD	0.00015174751
919	Provenance and Scientific Workflows: Challenges and Opportunities	2008	SIGMOD	0.00013214041
972	Declarative Networking: Language, Execution and Optimization	2006	SIGMOD	0.00012874501
1,096	Tiresias: The Database Oracle for How-To Queries	2012	SIGMOD	0.00012189583
1,627	Efficient Provenance Storage	2008	SIGMOD	0.00010188097
1,912	Querying Data Provenance	2010	SIGMOD	9.4946756e-05
2,914	Reverse Data Management	2011	VLDB	7.9667467e-05
3,075	Matching Twigs in Probabilistic XML	2007	VLDB	7.7839831e-05
3,590	On Probabilistic Fixpoint and Markov Chain Query Languages	2010	PODS	7.2801454e-05
4,098	Aggregation in Probabilistic Databases via Knowledge Compilation	2012	VLDB	6.9035475e-05
4,680	Probabilistic Databases with MarkoViews	2012	VLDB	6.5675814e-05
6,612	TRAMP: Understanding the Behavior of Schema Mappings through Provenance	2010	VLDB	5.8220265e-05
8,049	Labeling Recursive Workflow Executions On-the-Fly	2011	SIGMOD	5.500317e-05

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