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: 1532
Venue: PODS
Year: 2011
Pagerank: 5.5408029e-05
Overall Rank: 5,374 | 62.66%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Daniel Deutch
2. Tova Milo

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,931	Foundations of Data-Aware Process Analysis: A Database Theory Perspective	2013	PODS	0.0001005178
3,675	Efficient External-Memory Bisimulation on DAGs	2012	SIGMOD	6.8500291e-05
5,881	Repairing Vertex Labels under Neighborhood Constraints	2014	VLDB	5.2872198e-05
11,179	How To Optimize My Blockchain? A Multi-Level Recommendation Approach	2023	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-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
31	Provenance Semirings	2007	PODS	0.00078516827
653	On the Provenance of Non-Answers to Queries over Extracted Data	2008	VLDB	0.00018616975
990	Relational Transducers for Electronic Commerce	1998	PODS	0.00014800793
1,441	Provenance for Generalized Map and Reduce Workflows	2011	CIDR	0.00011950114
1,868	Update Exchange with Mappings and Provenance	2007	VLDB	0.0001026365
1,877	Verification of Communicating Data-Driven Web Services	2006	PODS	0.00010234468
2,382	Business Process Cockpit (EXTENDED ABSTRACT)	2002	VLDB	8.923498e-05
3,197	A Verifier for Interactive, Data-driven Web Applications	2005	SIGMOD	7.404293e-05
3,498	Specification and Verification of Data-driven Web Services	2004	PODS	7.0370688e-05
3,587	Efficient Querying and Maintenance of Network Provenance at Internet-Scale	2010	SIGMOD	6.9394966e-05
3,677	An Approach to Optimize Data Processing in Business Processes	2007	VLDB	6.8494152e-05
5,275	Annotated XML: Queries and Provenance	2008	PODS	5.5908918e-05
5,816	An Optimal Labeling Scheme for Workflow Provenance Using Skeleton Labels	2010	SIGMOD	5.3158435e-05
6,284	Probabilistic XML via Markov Chains	2010	VLDB	5.1232186e-05
7,288	Static Analysis of Active XML Systems	2008	PODS	4.7695781e-05
8,557	Monitoring Business Processes with Queries	2007	VLDB	4.4893996e-05
12,291	Optimal Top-K Query Evaluation for Weighted Business Processes	2010	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
12,390	Type Inference and Type Checking for Queries on Execution Traces	2008	VLDB	4.1905499e-05

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