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Database Repairs and Consistent Query Answering: Origins and Further Developments

Summary: Survey tracing origins and early developments of database repairs and consistent query answering, emphasizing foundational motivations, repair semantics, and representative examples. Spotlights recent, fruitful links to database causality and lesser‑known follow-up research directions. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
1802
Venue
PODS
Year
2019
Pagerank
8.4116912e-05
Overall Rank
2,565 | 82.41%
DOI
10.1145/3294052.3322190

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{bertossi_pods19,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '19},
        title = {{Database Repairs and Consistent Query Answering: Origins and Further Developments}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3294052.3322190},
        doi = {10.1145/3294052.3322190},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Bertossi, Leopoldo},
        year = {2019}
}

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3,886 GoodCore: Data-effective and Data-efficient Machine Learning through Coreset Selection over Incomplete Data 2023 SIGMOD 7.0460597e-05
5,844 A Dichotomy in the Complexity of Consistent Query Answering for Two Atom Queries With Self-Join 2024 PODS 6.0687501e-05
7,396 Fast Detection of Denial Constraint Violations 2022 VLDB 5.6257228e-05
7,558 Consistent Query Answering for Primary Keys on Path Queries 2021 PODS 5.5993651e-05
8,103 The Computation of Optimal Subset Repairs 2020 VLDB 5.4867244e-05
8,133 Evaluating Top-k Queries with Inconsistency Degrees 2020 VLDB 5.4813895e-05
8,699 Counting Problems over Incomplete Databases 2020 PODS 5.3829678e-05
9,133 First-Order Rewritability in Consistent Query Answering with Respect to Multiple Keys 2020 PODS 5.3169677e-05
11,121 Consistent Query Answering for Primary Keys on Rooted Tree Queries 2024 PODS 5.093636e-05
11,146 Computing Range Consistent Answers to Aggregation Queries via Rewriting 2024 PODS 5.093636e-05
11,384 LinCQA: Faster Consistent Query Answering with Linear Time Guarantees 2023 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
11,524 A Dichotomy in Consistent Query Answering for Primary Keys and Unary Foreign Keys 2022 PODS 5.093636e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 16 of 16 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
33 Consistent Query Answers in Inconsistent Databases 1999 PODS 0.00049907763
112 HoloClean: Holistic Data Repairs with Probabilistic Inference 2017 VLDB 0.00032801121
185 A Cost-Based Model and Effective Heuristic for Repairing Constraints by Value Modification 2005 SIGMOD 0.00026231189
605 The Complexity of Causality and Responsibility for Query Answers and non-Answers 2011 VLDB 0.00015839628
663 A Formal Approach to Finding Explanations for Database Queries 2014 SIGMOD 0.00015174751
714 Guided Data Repair 2011 VLDB 0.00014662041
800 The LLUNATIC Data-Cleaning Framework 2013 VLDB 0.00013911223
874 On the Decidability and Complexity of Query Answering over Inconsistent and Incomplete Databases 2003 PODS 0.00013481551
1,399 Computing Optimal Repairs for Functional Dependencies 2018 PODS 0.00010893312
1,707 The Data Complexity of Consistent Query Answering for Self-Join-Free Conjunctive Queries Under Primary Key Constraints 2015 PODS 9.9625097e-05
2,746 Dichotomies in the Complexity of Preferred Repairs 2015 PODS 8.1725014e-05
3,371 Modeling and Querying Possible Repairs in Duplicate Detection 2009 VLDB 7.4697134e-05
5,619 An Operational Approach to Consistent Query Answering 2018 PODS 6.1483242e-05
5,648 Consistent Query Answers in Inconsistent Probabilistic Databases 2010 SIGMOD 6.1351417e-05
8,038 Counting and Enumerating (Preferred) Database Repairs 2017 PODS 5.502256e-05
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