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HYPER: Hypothetical Reasoning With What-If and How-To Queries Using a Probabilistic Causal Approach
Summary: HYPER enables what-if and how-to hypothetical reasoning over data with probabilistic causal dependencies, capturing cross-attribute effects from updates. Extending SQL with new operators, it defines semantics and algorithms grounded in causality and probabilistic databases, with optimizations and experimental evaluation.
(summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
- Paper ID
- 6461
- Venue
- SIGMOD
- Year
- 2022
- Pagerank
- 5.4137872e-05
- Overall Rank
- 5,607 | 61.00%
- DOI
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10.1145/3514221.3526149
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