Anytime Approximation in Probabilistic Databases via Scaled Dissociations

Summary: Introduces an anytime branch-and-bound approximation scheme for probabilistic databases, unifying PDB and SRL model-based methods. Scaled dissociation tightens bounds for self-join-free CQ queries on tuple-independent PDBs, cutting approximation error. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5774
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2019
Pagerank: 5.4170414e-05
Overall Rank: 8,476 | 41.85%
DOI: 10.1145/3299869.3319900

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Authors

1. Maarten Van den Heuvel (University of Antwerp)
2. Peter Ivanov (Northeastern University)
3. Wolfgang Gatterbauer (Northeastern University)
4. Floris Geerts (University of Antwerp)
5. Martin Theobald (University of Luxembourg)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{heuvel_sigmod19,
        title = {{Anytime Approximation in Probabilistic Databases via Scaled Dissociations}},
        author = {Van den Heuvel, Maarten and Ivanov, Peter and Gatterbauer, Wolfgang and Geerts, Floris and Theobald, Martin},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '19},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3299869.3319900},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3299869.3319900},
        year = {2019}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,601	Optimal Join Algorithms Meet Top-k	2020	SIGMOD	6.1540123e-05
8,599	Minimally Factorizing the Provenance of Self-join Free Conjunctive Queries	2024	PODS	5.4049137e-05
8,724	FastPDB: Towards Bag-Probabilistic Queries at Interactive Speeds	2025	SIGMOD	5.3766157e-05
11,385	Probabilistic Reasoning at Scale: Trigger Graphs to the Rescue	2023	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
579	Incremental Knowledge Base Construction Using DeepDive	2015	VLDB	0.00016217563
683	MYSTIQ: A system for finding more answers by using probabilities	2005	SIGMOD	0.00015005338
908	Probase: A Probabilistic Taxonomy for Text Understanding	2012	SIGMOD	0.00013300624
1,057	YAGO3: A Knowledge Base from Multilingual Wikipedias	2015	CIDR	0.00012387149
1,594	Sensitivity Analysis and Explanations for Robust Query Evaluation in Probabilistic Databases	2011	SIGMOD	0.00010252583
1,752	Approximate Lineage for Probabilistic Databases	2008	VLDB	9.8358116e-05
2,460	Exploiting Shared Correlations in Probabilistic Databases	2008	VLDB	8.5505905e-05
2,831	Secondary-Storage Confidence Computation for Conjunctive Queries with Inequalities	2009	SIGMOD	8.0788784e-05
4,098	Aggregation in Probabilistic Databases via Knowledge Compilation	2012	VLDB	6.9035475e-05
4,301	Read-Once Functions and Query Evaluation in Probabilistic Databases	2010	VLDB	6.7737212e-05
4,680	Probabilistic Databases with MarkoViews	2012	VLDB	6.5675814e-05
5,225	Approximate Lifted Inference with Probabilistic Databases	2015	VLDB	6.310093e-05

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