A Quest for Beauty and Wealth (or, Business Processes for Database Researchers)

Summary: Calls for a unified flow-and-data framework for business processes, integrating control-flow, users, goals and data to enable declarative modeling and analysis. Surveys progress, pinpoints gaps where process and data remain disjoint and outlines research directions. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 1531
Venue: PODS
Year: 2011
Pagerank: 6.1915384e-05
Overall Rank: 5,511 | 62.20%
DOI: 10.1145/1989284.1989286

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Authors

1. Daniel Deutch (Ben Gurion University)
2. Tova Milo (Tel Aviv University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{deutch_pods11,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '11},
        title = {{A Quest for Beauty and Wealth (or, Business Processes for Database Researchers)}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1989284.1989286},
        doi = {10.1145/1989284.1989286},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Deutch, Daniel and Milo, Tova},
        year = {2011}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,653	Foundations of Data-Aware Process Analysis: A Database Theory Perspective	2013	PODS	8.2898925e-05
4,360	Efficient External-Memory Bisimulation on DAGs	2012	SIGMOD	6.7443622e-05
5,519	Repairing Vertex Labels under Neighborhood Constraints	2014	VLDB	6.1885644e-05
11,382	How To Optimize My Blockchain? A Multi-Level Recommendation Approach	2023	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 18 of 18 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
628	On the Provenance of Non-Answers to Queries over Extracted Data	2008	VLDB	0.00015630285
1,159	Relational Transducers for Electronic Commerce	1998	PODS	0.00011898742
1,366	Provenance for Generalized Map and Reduce Workflows	2011	CIDR	0.00011016972
1,599	Update Exchange with Mappings and Provenance	2007	VLDB	0.00010241307
2,125	Verification of Communicating Data-Driven Web Services	2006	PODS	9.1334411e-05
2,891	Business Process Cockpit	2002	VLDB	7.9864174e-05
3,323	Efficient Querying and Maintenance of Network Provenance at Internet-Scale	2010	SIGMOD	7.5211754e-05
3,398	A Verifier for Interactive, Data-driven Web Applications	2005	SIGMOD	7.4467496e-05
3,913	An Approach to Optimize Data Processing in Business Processes	2007	VLDB	7.0230514e-05
4,080	Specification and Verification of Data-driven Web Services	2004	PODS	6.9165722e-05
5,502	Annotated XML: Queries and Provenance	2008	PODS	6.1961339e-05
5,724	An Optimal Labeling Scheme for Workflow Provenance Using Skeleton Labels	2010	SIGMOD	6.108728e-05
6,508	Probabilistic XML via Markov Chains	2010	VLDB	5.8576101e-05
7,361	Static Analysis of Active XML Systems	2008	PODS	5.6340455e-05
8,763	Monitoring Business Processes with Queries	2007	VLDB	5.3766157e-05
12,478	Optimal Top-K Query Evaluation for Weighted Business Processes	2010	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,575	Type Inference and Type Checking for Queries on Execution Traces	2008	VLDB	5.093636e-05

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