Information Theory for Data Management

Summary: Info-theoretic framework for data management: entropy, KL divergence, conditional entropy, mutual information on column distributions. Applies to design, integration, and anonymization; discusses computational challenges and estimation from histograms. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4425
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2010
Pagerank: 5.4323037e-05
Overall Rank: 8,405 | 42.34%
DOI: 10.1145/1807167.1807337

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Divesh Srivastava (AT&T)
2. Suresh Venkatasubramanian (University of Utah)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{srivastava_sigmod10,
        title = {{Information Theory for Data Management}},
        author = {Srivastava, Divesh and Venkatasubramanian, Suresh},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '10},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1807167.1807337},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1807167.1807337},
        year = {2010}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,782	Interaction between Record Matching and Data Repairing	2011	SIGMOD	8.1280264e-05
3,572	Summary Graphs for Relational Database Schemas	2011	VLDB	7.2980153e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
218	Limiting Privacy Breaches in Privacy Preserving Data Mining	2003	PODS	0.00024420564
244	On the Design and Quantification of Privacy Preserving Data Mining Algorithms	2001	PODS	0.00023476901
808	On Schema Matching with Opaque Column Names and Data Values	2003	SIGMOD	0.00013884332
1,913	Information-Theoretic Tools for Mining Database Structure from Large Data Sets	2004	SIGMOD	9.4928569e-05
3,141	Information Dependencies	2000	PODS	7.7170066e-05
3,432	An Information-Theoretic Approach to Normal Forms for Relational and XML Data	2003	PODS	7.4182332e-05

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