Query by Output

Summary: Query By Output (QBO) derives instance-equivalent queries Q' from Q(D) with a data-driven, classification-based approach that handles at-least-one semantics. It introduces optimizations and utility-based ranking to achieve scalable, robust generation across real datasets. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4146
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2009
Pagerank: 0.00021960753
Overall Rank: 491 | 96.59%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 31 of 31 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,056	Cosette: An Automated Prover for SQL	2017	CIDR	0.00014391317
1,124	How to ConQueR Why-Not Questions	2010	SIGMOD	0.00013832959
1,502	Discovering Queries based on Example Tuples	2014	SIGMOD	0.00011614522
1,507	Overview of Data Exploration Techniques	2015	SIGMOD	0.00011594294
1,575	Reverse Engineering Complex Join Queries	2013	SIGMOD	0.00011288804
2,027	Keyword++: A Framework to Improve Keyword Search Over Entity Databases	2010	VLDB	9.7396736e-05
2,577	S4: Top-k Spreadsheet-Style Search for Query Discovery	2015	SIGMOD	8.5066436e-05
2,655	Explaining Query Answers with Explanation-Ready Databases	2016	VLDB	8.3638668e-05
2,717	REGAL+: Reverse Engineering SPJA Queries	2018	VLDB	8.2370772e-05
2,751	Learning and Verifying Quantified Boolean Queries by Example	2013	PODS	8.1725194e-05
2,990	FastQRE: Fast Query Reverse Engineering	2018	SIGMOD	7.7727915e-05
3,192	Gestural Query Specification	2014	VLDB	7.4085087e-05
3,233	Learning Semantic String Transformations from Examples	2012	VLDB	7.331883e-05
3,343	Toward Computational Fact-Checking	2014	VLDB	7.196079e-05
3,668	Reverse Engineering Aggregation Queries	2017	VLDB	6.8581987e-05
3,684	SPARQLByE: Querying RDF data by example	2016	VLDB	6.8399983e-05
4,636	Reverse Engineering SPJ-Queries from Examples	2017	PODS	6.0270157e-05
4,755	Optimization for Active Learning-based Interactive Database Exploration	2019	VLDB	5.9375171e-05
4,982	Interactive Query Synthesis from Input-Output Examples	2017	SIGMOD	5.7817493e-05
5,279	Auto-Tables: Synthesizing Multi-Step Transformations to Relationalize Tables without Using Examples	2023	VLDB	5.5851818e-05
5,389	Auto-Pipeline: Synthesizing Complex Data Pipelines By-Target Using Reinforcement Learning and Search	2021	VLDB	5.5339832e-05
5,657	FluxQuery: An Execution Framework for Highly Interactive Query Workloads	2016	SIGMOD	5.3873634e-05
5,660	Query Refinement for Diverse Top-k Selection	2024	SIGMOD	5.3859487e-05
6,644	Query Refinement for Diversity Constraint Satisfaction	2024	VLDB	4.973836e-05
8,338	Exploring the Data Wilderness through Examples	2019	SIGMOD	4.538469e-05
9,072	DataDiff: User-Interpretable Data Transformation Summaries for Collaborative Data Analysis	2018	SIGMOD	4.3975844e-05
9,695	The Data Interaction Game	2018	SIGMOD	4.298211e-05
10,606	Auto-Prep: Holistic Prediction of Data Preparation Steps for Self-Service Business Intelligence	2025	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
11,296	Erica: Query Refinement for Diversity Constraint Satisfaction	2023	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
11,596	SPARQL Rewriting: Towards Desired Results	2020	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
11,879	Exploring Databases via Reverse Engineering Ranking Queries with PALEO	2016	VLDB	4.1905499e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
257	Making Database Systems Usable	2007	SIGMOD	0.00030237174
373	Selectivity Estimation using Probabilistic Models	2001	SIGMOD	0.00025354685
807	Curated Databases	2008	PODS	0.00016415752
882	QAGen: Generating Query-Aware Test Databases	2007	SIGMOD	0.00015634206
1,912	Information-Theoretic Tools for Mining Database Structure from Large Data Sets	2004	SIGMOD	0.00010116822
2,280	Generating Targeted Queries for Database Testing	2008	SIGMOD	9.1247368e-05
3,429	Discovering Topical Structures of Databases	2008	SIGMOD	7.0996766e-05
3,769	Output Perturbation with Query Relaxation	2008	VLDB	6.7744696e-05
4,106	Exploiting Constraint-Like Data Characterizations in Query Optimization	2001	SIGMOD	6.4395338e-05

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