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Caravan: Provisioning for What-If Analysis
Summary: Caravan compiles provisioned autonomous representations (PARs) from the data, the analysis query, and user-specified what-if edits to enable fast, local what-if evaluation without accessing the source data. PAR size scales with the initial query answer (and scenario parameters) rather than the full dataset, enabling lightweight interactive exploration on resource-constrained devices.
(summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
- Paper ID
- 179
- Venue
- CIDR
- Year
- 2013
- Pagerank
- 0.00011036992
- Overall Rank
- 1,646 | 88.56%
- DOI
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8.0810163e-05 |
| 4,664 |
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HYPER: Hypothetical Reasoning With What-If and How-To Queries Using a Probabilistic Causal Approach |
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2024 |
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4.9786132e-05 |
| 8,138 |
Fast and Reliable Missing Data Contingency Analysis with Predicate-Constraints |
2020 |
SIGMOD |
4.5771031e-05 |
| 8,257 |
Automating and Optimizing Data-Centric What-If Analyses on Native Machine Learning Pipelines |
2023 |
SIGMOD |
4.5487511e-05 |
| 8,394 |
Hypothetical Reasoning via Provenance Abstraction |
2019 |
SIGMOD |
4.527807e-05 |
| 8,886 |
Provenance-based Data Skipping |
2022 |
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4.4279829e-05 |
| 9,179 |
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| 9,907 |
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2013 |
VLDB |
4.2577164e-05 |
| 10,394 |
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2025 |
SIGMOD |
4.1945683e-05 |
| 10,886 |
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2025 |
VLDB |
4.1945683e-05 |
| 11,294 |
Erica: Query Refinement for Diversity Constraint Satisfaction |
2023 |
VLDB |
4.1945683e-05 |
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2014 |
VLDB |
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