Tracing Data Errors with View-Conditioned Causality

Summary: View-conditioned causality for identifying causes of unexpected query results across multiple views. Uses adapted causality and responsibility, reduces to SAT, and shows improved accuracy over Boolean influence on real mobile-tracking data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4408
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2011
Pagerank: 8.4667197e-05
Overall Rank: 2,602 | 81.90%
DOI: -

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214	Scorpion: Explaining Away Outliers in Aggregate Queries	2013	VLDB	0.0003363692
942	A Formal Approach to Finding Explanations for Database Queries	2014	SIGMOD	0.00015155714
1,449	Causal Relational Learning	2020	SIGMOD	0.0001193267
1,627	Data Cleaning: Overview and Emerging Challenges	2016	SIGMOD	0.00011086905
2,649	Explaining Query Answers with Explanation-Ready Databases	2016	VLDB	8.3719123e-05
2,892	Data Provenance at Internet Scale: Architecture, Experiences, and the Road Ahead	2017	CIDR	7.9480559e-05
3,105	Data X-Ray: A Diagnostic Tool for Data Errors	2015	SIGMOD	7.5568954e-05
3,218	Reverse Data Management	2011	VLDB	7.3592173e-05
4,361	The Complexity of Resilience and Responsibility for Self-Join-Free Conjunctive Queries	2016	VLDB	6.2559141e-05
4,937	New Results for the Complexity of Resilience for Binary Conjunctive Queries with Self-Joins	2020	PODS	5.8187108e-05
5,313	XInsight: eXplainable Data Analysis Through The Lens of Causality	2023	SIGMOD	5.573009e-05
5,445	QFix: Diagnosing Errors through Query Histories	2017	SIGMOD	5.5020909e-05
5,660	Descriptive and Prescriptive Data Cleaning	2014	SIGMOD	5.3847321e-05
7,013	Qualitative Data Cleaning	2016	VLDB	4.8619024e-05
8,728	Stale View Cleaning: Getting Fresh Answers from Stale Materialized Views	2015	VLDB	4.4589711e-05
9,024	Causality-Guided Adaptive Interventional Debugging	2020	SIGMOD	4.4075011e-05
9,766	DPXPlain: Privately Explaining Aggregate Query Answers	2023	VLDB	4.2856106e-05
10,740	Finding Convincing Views to Endorse a Claim	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,954	Counterfactual Explanation at Will, with Zero Privacy Leakage	2024	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
11,123	PD-Explain: A Unified Python-native Framework for Query Explanations Over DataFrames	2024	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
12,052	Provenance-based Dictionary Refinement in Information Extraction	2013	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
31	Provenance Semirings	2007	PODS	0.0007857786
48	Data Integration: A Theoretical Perspective	2002	PODS	0.00069720859
487	Why Not?	2009	SIGMOD	0.00022050218
621	Schema Mappings, Data Exchange, and Metadata Management	2005	PODS	0.00019005115
652	On the Provenance of Non-Answers to Queries over Extracted Data	2008	VLDB	0.00018634477
655	On Propagation of Deletions and Annotations Through Views	2002	PODS	0.00018608845
809	Curated Databases	2008	PODS	0.00016430384
1,078	Model Management 2.0: Manipulating Richer Mappings	2007	SIGMOD	0.00014245848
1,119	The Complexity of Causality and Responsibility for Query Answers and non-Answers	2011	VLDB	0.0001386199
1,125	How to ConQueR Why-Not Questions	2010	SIGMOD	0.00013845652
2,562	Explaining Missing Answers to SPJUA Queries	2010	VLDB	8.5386194e-05
2,790	Artemis: A System for Analyzing Missing Answers	2009	VLDB	8.1239026e-05

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