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)
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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5,494 | Incomplete Data: What Went Wrong, and How to Fix It | 2014 | PODS | 5.4759469e-05 |
| 6,858 | When is Naive Evaluation Possible? | 2013 | PODS | 4.9060157e-05 |
| 8,545 | Optimal Security-Aware Query Processing | 2014 | VLDB | 4.4937074e-05 |
| 8,803 | Coping with Incomplete Data: Recent Advances | 2020 | PODS | 4.4470842e-05 |
| 8,851 | Efficient Approximations of Conjunctive Queries | 2012 | PODS | 4.4363908e-05 |
| 11,900 | Recovering Exchanged Data | 2015 | PODS | 4.1945683e-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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 48 | Data Integration: A Theoretical Perspective | 2002 | PODS | 0.00069720859 |
| 297 | Complexity of Answering Queries Using Materialized Views | 1998 | PODS | 0.00028596715 |
| 698 | The Chase Revisited | 2008 | PODS | 0.00018030148 |
| 1,102 | On the Decidability and Complexity of Query Answering over Inconsistent and Incomplete Databases | 2003 | PODS | 0.00014049364 |
| 1,663 | Conjunctive Queries over Trees | 2004 | PODS | 0.00010977096 |
| 2,769 | On The Integrity Of Databases With Incomplete Information | 1986 | PODS | 8.1450304e-05 |
| 12,215 | Certain Answers for XML Queries | 2010 | PODS | 4.1945683e-05 |
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Semantically Similar Papers
| Overall Rank | Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8,803 | Coping with Incomplete Data: Recent Advances | 2020 | PODS | 4.4470842e-05 |
| 12,209 | Completeness of Queries over Incomplete Databases | 2011 | VLDB | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 12,416 | Incompleteness in Information Integration | 2008 | VLDB | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 6,273 | Identifying the Extent of Completeness of Query Answers over Partially Complete Databases | 2015 | SIGMOD | 5.1323078e-05 |
| 14,258 | Completeness Information and Its Application to Query Processing | 1986 | VLDB | - |
| 3,681 | Queries with Incomplete Answers over Semistructured Data | 1999 | PODS | 6.8492288e-05 |
| 5,494 | Incomplete Data: What Went Wrong, and How to Fix It | 2014 | PODS | 5.4759469e-05 |
| 3,502 | Data Exchange and Incomplete Information | 2006 | PODS | 7.0366655e-05 |
| 12,215 | Certain Answers for XML Queries | 2010 | PODS | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 12,298 | XML with Incomplete Information: Models, Properties, and Query Answering | 2009 | PODS | 4.1945683e-05 |