Hypothetical Reasoning via Provenance Abstraction

Summary: Provenance abstraction via user-defined trees coarsens provenance variables for hypothetical scenarios with reduced storage. Formalizes size-granularity tradeoff, analyzes complexity, and offers algorithms/heuristics with speedups and accuracy loss. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5616
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2019
Pagerank: 4.5234647e-05
Overall Rank: 8,392 | 41.68%
DOI: 10.1145/3299869.3300084

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,617	HYPER: Hypothetical Reasoning With What-If and How-To Queries Using a Probabilistic Causal Approach	2022	SIGMOD	5.4085897e-05
8,886	Provenance-based Data Skipping	2022	VLDB	4.4237386e-05
11,474	On Optimizing the Trade-off between Privacy and Utility in Data Provenance	2021	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 19 of 19 cited papers.

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	0.00078516827
943	A Formal Approach to Finding Explanations for Database Queries	2014	SIGMOD	0.00015140995
1,106	Provenance for Aggregate Queries	2011	PODS	0.00013976386
1,376	Tiresias: The Database Oracle for How-To Queries	2012	SIGMOD	0.00012315734
1,441	Provenance for Generalized Map and Reduce Workflows	2011	CIDR	0.00011950114
1,460	Hypothetical Queries in an OLAP Environment	2000	VLDB	0.00011873918
1,646	Caravan: Provisioning for What-If Analysis	2013	CIDR	0.00011026644
1,864	Efficient Provenance Storage	2008	SIGMOD	0.00010277171
1,972	Approximate Lineage for Probabilistic Databases	2008	VLDB	9.8937766e-05
2,030	Titian: Data Provenance Support in Spark	2016	VLDB	9.734332e-05
2,031	Putting Lipstick on Pig: Enabling Database-style Workflow Provenance	2012	VLDB	9.7341007e-05
2,254	Two-Level Sampling for Join Size Estimation	2017	SIGMOD	9.1871115e-05
3,224	Reverse Data Management	2011	VLDB	7.3523336e-05
3,704	RAMP: A System for Capturing and Tracing Provenance in MapReduce Workflows	2011	VLDB	6.8242938e-05
4,708	Aggregation in Probabilistic Databases via Knowledge Compilation	2012	VLDB	5.9763416e-05
5,275	Annotated XML: Queries and Provenance	2008	PODS	5.5908918e-05
6,088	Distributed Provenance Compression	2017	SIGMOD	5.2146574e-05
6,665	Selective Provenance for Datalog Programs Using Top-K Queries	2015	VLDB	4.9657158e-05
6,947	TRAMP: Understanding the Behavior of Schema Mappings through Provenance	2010	VLDB	4.8869805e-05

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