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: 4207
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2009
Pagerank: 0.00017169735
Overall Rank: 517 | 96.46%
DOI: 10.1145/1559845.1559902

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Quoc Trung Tran (National University of Singapore)
2. Chee-Yong Chan (National University of Singapore)
3. Srinivasan Parthasarathy (National University of Singapore; Ohio State University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{tran_sigmod09,
        title = {{Query by Output}},
        author = {Tran, Quoc Trung and Chan, Chee-Yong and Parthasarathy, Srinivasan},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '09},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1559845.1559902},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1559845.1559902},
        year = {2009}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 31 of 31 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
856	How to ConQueR Why-Not Questions	2010	SIGMOD	0.00013573466
910	Cosette: An Automated Prover for SQL	2017	CIDR	0.00013285905
1,198	Overview of Data Exploration Techniques	2015	SIGMOD	0.00011706307
1,262	Discovering Queries based on Example Tuples	2014	SIGMOD	0.00011427456
1,313	Reverse Engineering Complex Join Queries	2013	SIGMOD	0.00011186284
2,195	Explaining Query Answers with Explanation-Ready Databases	2016	VLDB	8.9713779e-05
2,387	S4: Top-k Spreadsheet-Style Search for Query Discovery	2015	SIGMOD	8.6482009e-05
2,478	Keyword++: A Framework to Improve Keyword Search Over Entity Databases	2010	VLDB	8.5223053e-05
2,631	FastQRE: Fast Query Reverse Engineering	2018	SIGMOD	8.3231158e-05
2,639	Learning and Verifying Quantified Boolean Queries by Example	2013	PODS	8.3078378e-05
2,946	Gestural Query Specification	2014	VLDB	7.93259e-05
3,127	Toward Computational Fact-Checking	2014	VLDB	7.7308958e-05
3,300	Reverse Engineering Aggregation Queries	2017	VLDB	7.5412976e-05
3,422	SPARQLByE: Querying RDF data by example	2016	VLDB	7.426997e-05
3,444	REGAL+: Reverse Engineering SPJA Queries	2018	VLDB	7.4094584e-05
3,547	Learning Semantic String Transformations from Examples	2012	VLDB	7.3225973e-05
4,420	Optimization for Active Learning-based Interactive Database Exploration	2019	VLDB	6.7132724e-05
4,644	Reverse Engineering SPJ-Queries from Examples	2017	PODS	6.5901073e-05
4,733	Interactive Query Synthesis from Input-Output Examples	2017	SIGMOD	6.5335361e-05
4,875	Auto-Pipeline: Synthesizing Complex Data Pipelines By-Target Using Reinforcement Learning and Search	2021	VLDB	6.4689177e-05
5,403	Auto-Tables: Synthesizing Multi-Step Transformations to Relationalize Tables without Using Examples	2023	VLDB	6.2306083e-05
5,707	FluxQuery: An Execution Framework for Highly Interactive Query Workloads	2016	SIGMOD	6.1143236e-05
6,293	Query Refinement for Diversity Constraint Satisfaction	2024	VLDB	5.9247942e-05
6,389	Query Refinement for Diverse Top-k Selection	2024	SIGMOD	5.8895166e-05
8,358	Exploring the Data Wilderness through Examples	2019	SIGMOD	5.4446041e-05
9,129	DataDiff: User-Interpretable Data Transformation Summaries for Collaborative Data Analysis	2018	SIGMOD	5.318789e-05
9,380	Auto-Prep: Holistic Prediction of Data Preparation Steps for Self-Service Business Intelligence	2025	VLDB	5.2755515e-05
9,832	The Data Interaction Game	2018	SIGMOD	5.2124469e-05
11,493	Erica: Query Refinement for Diversity Constraint Satisfaction	2023	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,787	SPARQL Rewriting: Towards Desired Results	2020	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,072	Exploring Databases via Reverse Engineering Ranking Queries with PALEO	2016	VLDB	5.093636e-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
280	Selectivity Estimation using Probabilistic Models	2001	SIGMOD	0.00022454217
314	Making Database Systems Usable	2007	SIGMOD	0.00021574636
734	QAGen: Generating Query-Aware Test Databases	2007	SIGMOD	0.00014525584
1,060	Curated Databases	2008	PODS	0.00012371807
1,913	Information-Theoretic Tools for Mining Database Structure from Large Data Sets	2004	SIGMOD	9.4928569e-05
2,069	Generating Targeted Queries for Database Testing	2008	SIGMOD	9.2293717e-05
3,935	Output Perturbation with Query Relaxation	2008	VLDB	7.0083453e-05
4,199	Exploiting Constraint-Like Data Characterizations in Query Optimization	2001	SIGMOD	6.8388774e-05
4,228	Discovering Topical Structures of Databases	2008	SIGMOD	6.819835e-05

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