sPaQLTooLs: A Stochastic Package Query Interface for Scalable Constrained Optimization

Summary: Proposes SPQs for in-database specification of constrained stochastic optimization. Combines Monte Carlo databases with SUMMARYSEARCH to provide approximation guarantees and substantial speedups over prior in-database approaches. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 12154
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2020
Pagerank: 4.2710095e-05
Overall Rank: 9,830 | 31.69%
DOI: 10.14778/3415478.3415499

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322	MCDB: A Monte Carlo Approach to Managing Uncertain Data	2008	SIGMOD	0.00027523667
8,700	Stochastic Package Queries in Probabilistic Databases	2020	SIGMOD	4.4603778e-05

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