Incomplete Information and Certain Answers in General Data Models
Summary: Introduce a general framework using semantics-based orderings to model degrees of incompleteness, showing relational and XML certain answers as instances of a single concept. Apply it to explain naive evaluation, settle XML existence questions, expose limits of prior null-ordering models, subsume relations/documents, and derive complexity and data-exchange results. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Leonid Libkin (University of Edinburgh)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{libkin_pods11,
address = {New York, NY, USA},
series = {{PODS} '11},
title = {{Incomplete Information and Certain Answers in General Data Models}},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1989284.1989294},
doi = {10.1145/1989284.1989294},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
author = {Libkin, Leonid},
year = {2011}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5,271 | Incomplete Data: What Went Wrong, and How to Fix It | 2014 | PODS | 6.2907571e-05 |
| 6,852 | When is Naive Evaluation Possible? | 2013 | PODS | 5.7540317e-05 |
| 8,749 | Optimal Security-Aware Query Processing | 2014 | VLDB | 5.3766157e-05 |
| 8,837 | Coping with Incomplete Data: Recent Advances | 2020 | PODS | 5.3596619e-05 |
| 9,009 | Efficient Approximations of Conjunctive Queries | 2012 | PODS | 5.3335287e-05 |
| 12,099 | Recovering Exchanged Data | 2015 | PODS | 5.093636e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | Data Integration: A Theoretical Perspective | 2002 | PODS | 0.00056204792 |
| 225 | Complexity of Answering Queries Using Materialized Views | 1998 | PODS | 0.00024101949 |
| 525 | The Chase Revisited | 2008 | PODS | 0.00017118255 |
| 874 | On the Decidability and Complexity of Query Answering over Inconsistent and Incomplete Databases | 2003 | PODS | 0.00013481551 |
| 1,564 | Conjunctive Queries over Trees | 2004 | PODS | 0.00010349456 |
| 2,671 | On The Integrity Of Databases With Incomplete Information | 1986 | PODS | 8.2736086e-05 |
| 12,410 | Certain Answers for XML Queries | 2010 | PODS | 5.093636e-05 |
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