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Explaining Query Answers with Explanation-Ready Databases

Summary: Proposes explanation-ready databases that offline-precompute intervention effects to enable interactive explanations of query results. Formalizes an explanation-query that evaluates all explanations at once, with algorithms and real-data experiments. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
11326
Venue
VLDB
Year
2016
Pagerank
8.3719123e-05
Overall Rank
2,649 | 81.58%
DOI
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1,634 Exathlon: A Benchmark for Explainable Anomaly Detection over Time Series 2021 VLDB 0.00011058945
2,280 SMOKE: Fine-grained Lineage at Interactive Speed 2018 VLDB 9.1111033e-05
2,753 Complaint-driven Training Data Debugging for Query 2.0 2020 SIGMOD 8.1724339e-05
2,868 Computing the Shapley Value of Facts in Query Answering 2022 SIGMOD 7.9816425e-05
4,937 New Results for the Complexity of Resilience for Binary Conjunctive Queries with Self-Joins 2020 PODS 5.8187108e-05
5,191 Going Beyond Provenance: Explaining Query Answers with Pattern-based Counterbalances 2019 SIGMOD 5.6378768e-05
5,222 Enabling SQL-based Training Data Debugging for Federated Learning 2022 VLDB 5.6210545e-05
5,691 Putting Things into Context: Rich Explanations for Query Answers using Join Graphs 2021 SIGMOD 5.3684557e-05
5,867 Combining Design and Performance in a Data Visualization Management System 2017 CIDR 5.296418e-05
6,153 On Data-Aware Global Explainability of Graph Neural Networks 2023 VLDB 5.1829258e-05
6,475 Explain3D: Explaining Disagreements in Disjoint Datasets 2019 VLDB 5.0497183e-05
6,565 Toward Interpretable and Actionable Data Analysis with Explanations and Causality 2022 VLDB 5.0081626e-05
6,779 Explaining Inference Queries with Bayesian Optimization 2021 VLDB 4.9280116e-05
7,066 On Multiple Semantics for Declarative Database Repairs 2020 SIGMOD 4.8445108e-05
7,172 Summarized Causal Explanations For Aggregate Views 2024 SIGMOD 4.8114797e-05
7,556 Interactive Query Explanations Using Fine Grained Provenance 2022 SIGMOD 4.7117814e-05
8,721 Aggregated Deletion Propagation for Counting Conjunctive Query Answers 2021 VLDB 4.4608778e-05
8,886 Provenance-based Data Skipping 2022 VLDB 4.4279829e-05
9,644 Fair and Actionable Causal Prescription Ruleset 2025 SIGMOD 4.3109001e-05
9,766 DPXPlain: Privately Explaining Aggregate Query Answers 2023 VLDB 4.2856106e-05
10,140 Analyzing Deviations from Monotonic Trends through Database Repair 2026 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
10,147 Causal Explanations for Disparate Trends: Where and Why? 2026 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
10,213 Stress-Testing Causal Claims via Cardinality Repairs 2026 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
10,269 Database Views as Explanations for Relational Deep Learning 2026 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
10,740 Finding Convincing Views to Endorse a Claim 2025 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
10,875 SDEcho: Efficient Explanation of Aggregated Sequence Difference 2025 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
10,886 FaDE: More Than a Million What-ifs Per Second 2025 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
10,939 Relative Keys: Putting Feature Explanation into Context 2024 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
10,954 Counterfactual Explanation at Will, with Zero Privacy Leakage 2024 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-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
55 Efficiently Updating Materialized Views 1986 SIGMOD 0.00065762967
95 Maintaining Views Incrementally 1993 SIGMOD 0.00050896659
214 Scorpion: Explaining Away Outliers in Aggregate Queries 2013 VLDB 0.0003363692
481 Incremental Maintenance of Views with Duplicates 1995 SIGMOD 0.00022167223
492 Query by Output 2009 SIGMOD 0.00021974699
586 DBToaster: Higher-order Delta Processing for Dynamic, Frequently Fresh Views 2012 VLDB 0.00019685374
942 A Formal Approach to Finding Explanations for Database Queries 2014 SIGMOD 0.00015155714
1,106 Provenance for Aggregate Queries 2011 PODS 0.0001398766
1,119 The Complexity of Causality and Responsibility for Query Answers and non-Answers 2011 VLDB 0.0001386199
1,238 Incremental Query Evaluation in a Ring of Databases 2010 PODS 0.00013114581
1,421 Algorithms for Deferred View Maintenance 1996 SIGMOD 0.0001205793
1,534 PerfXplain: Debugging MapReduce Job Performance 2012 VLDB 0.00011468393
1,744 On-Line Warehouse View Maintenance 1997 SIGMOD 0.00010702657
2,402 Causality and Explanations in Databases 2014 VLDB 8.8928361e-05
2,602 Tracing Data Errors with View-Conditioned Causality 2011 SIGMOD 8.4667197e-05
2,852 MRI: Meaningful Interpretations of Collaborative Ratings 2011 VLDB 8.0151391e-05
3,242 Explanation-Based Auditing 2012 VLDB 7.3301779e-05
4,260 Multi-Tuple Deletion Propagation: Approximations and Complexity 2013 VLDB 6.3124474e-05
6,606 Explainable Security for Relational Databases 2014 SIGMOD 4.996456e-05
6,968 Utilizing IDs to Accelerate Incremental View Maintenance 2015 SIGMOD 4.8801295e-05
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