Automatic Enforcement of Data Use Policies with DataLawyer
Summary: DataLawyer provides formal usage policies enforced at query runtime in a relational DBMS. A compact policy model and novel evaluation algorithms cut policy overhead to a few percent of query time; implemented and tested on a real healthcare dataset. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Prasang Upadhyaya (University of Washington)
- 2. Magdalena Balazinska (University of Washington)
- 3. Dan Suciu (University of Washington)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{upadhyaya_sigmod15,
title = {{Automatic Enforcement of Data Use Policies with DataLawyer}},
author = {Upadhyaya, Prasang and Balazinska, Magdalena and Suciu, Dan},
series = {{SIGMOD} '15},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/2723372.2723721},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2723372.2723721},
year = {2015}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,459 | SMCQL: Secure Querying for Federated Databases | 2017 | VLDB | 0.00010717725 |
| 4,053 | Database-Agnostic Workload Management | 2019 | CIDR | 6.9355341e-05 |
| 7,503 | Disclosure-Compliant Query Answering | 2024 | SIGMOD | 5.6029996e-05 |
| 7,598 | Software-Defined Data Protection: Low Overhead Policy Compliance at the Storage Layer is Within Reach! | 2021 | VLDB | 5.5877452e-05 |
| 9,228 | Enabling Personal Consent in Databases | 2022 | VLDB | 5.3018457e-05 |
| 12,147 | Big Data Research: Will Industry Solve all the Problems? | 2015 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 12 of 12 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 229 | High-Performance Complex Event Processing over Streams | 2006 | SIGMOD | 0.00023927582 |
| 404 | Hippocratic Databases | 2002 | VLDB | 0.00019065022 |
| 438 | DBToaster: Higher-order Delta Processing for Dynamic, Frequently Fresh Views | 2012 | VLDB | 0.00018471721 |
| 670 | SharedDB: Killing One Thousand Queries With One Stone | 2012 | VLDB | 0.00015157572 |
| 732 | Cayuga: A General Purpose Event Monitoring System | 2007 | CIDR | 0.00014536846 |
| 1,060 | Curated Databases | 2008 | PODS | 0.00012371807 |
| 2,134 | Provenance Management in Curated Databases | 2006 | SIGMOD | 9.1154913e-05 |
| 5,307 | Materialized View and Index Selection Tool for Microsoft SQL Server 2000 | 2001 | SIGMOD | 6.2728074e-05 |
| 5,711 | PolicyReplay: Misconfiguration-Response Queries for Data Breach Reporting | 2010 | VLDB | 6.1128939e-05 |
| 6,705 | Efficient Auditing For Complex SQL queries | 2011 | SIGMOD | 5.7970786e-05 |
| 7,484 | On Scale Independence for Querying Big Data | 2014 | PODS | 5.6074278e-05 |
| 12,248 | The Power of Data Use Management in Action | 2013 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
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