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)
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Authors
- 1. Alexandra Meliou (University of Washington)
- 2. Wolfgang Gatterbauer (University of Washington)
- 3. Suman Nath (Microsoft)
- 4. Dan Suciu (University of Washington)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{meliou_sigmod11,
title = {{Tracing Data Errors with View-Conditioned Causality}},
author = {Meliou, Alexandra and Gatterbauer, Wolfgang and Nath, Suman and Suciu, Dan},
series = {{SIGMOD} '11},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/1989323.1989376},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1989323.1989376},
year = {2011}
}
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | Provenance Semirings | 2007 | PODS | 0.00059843817 |
| 22 | Data Integration: A Theoretical Perspective | 2002 | PODS | 0.00056204792 |
| 385 | Why Not? | 2009 | SIGMOD | 0.00019455743 |
| 506 | Schema Mappings, Data Exchange, and Metadata Management | 2005 | PODS | 0.0001728171 |
| 605 | The Complexity of Causality and Responsibility for Query Answers and non-Answers | 2011 | VLDB | 0.00015839628 |
| 620 | On Propagation of Deletions and Annotations Through Views | 2002 | PODS | 0.00015703409 |
| 628 | On the Provenance of Non-Answers to Queries over Extracted Data | 2008 | VLDB | 0.00015630285 |
| 762 | Model Management 2.0: Manipulating Richer Mappings | 2007 | SIGMOD | 0.00014231163 |
| 856 | How to ConQueR Why-Not Questions | 2010 | SIGMOD | 0.00013573466 |
| 1,060 | Curated Databases | 2008 | PODS | 0.00012371807 |
| 2,032 | Explaining Missing Answers to SPJUA Queries | 2010 | VLDB | 9.2828822e-05 |
| 2,358 | Artemis: A System for Analyzing Missing Answers | 2009 | VLDB | 8.6996414e-05 |
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