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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.
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Paper ID
11514
Venue
VLDB
Year
2016
Pagerank
8.9713779e-05
Overall Rank
2,195 | 84.95%
DOI
10.14778/2856318.2856329
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
BibTeX Citation
@article{roy_vldb16,
title = {{Explaining Query Answers with Explanation-Ready Databases}},
author = {Roy, Sudeepa and Orr, Laurel and Suciu, Dan},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '16},
volume = {9},
number = {4},
pages = {348--359},
doi = {10.14778/2856318.2856329},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2856318.2856329},
year = {2016}
}
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