Artemis: A System for Analyzing Missing Answers

Summary: Artemis diagnoses missing SPJU results by accepting labeled-null outputs and encoding them as c-tuples to derive explanations. Explanations map to existing and missing source tuples, can be ranked or filtered, solved as constraints by a solver, and explored with what-if analysis via an Eclipse front end. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9821
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2009
Pagerank: 8.1239026e-05
Overall Rank: 2,790 | 80.60%
DOI: -

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1,119	The Complexity of Causality and Responsibility for Query Answers and non-Answers	2011	VLDB	0.0001386199
1,125	How to ConQueR Why-Not Questions	2010	SIGMOD	0.00013845652
2,562	Explaining Missing Answers to SPJUA Queries	2010	VLDB	8.5386194e-05
2,602	Tracing Data Errors with View-Conditioned Causality	2011	SIGMOD	8.4667197e-05
2,797	Query-Oriented Data Cleaning with Oracles	2015	SIGMOD	8.1108589e-05
3,095	Answering Why-not Questions on Reverse Top-k Queries	2015	VLDB	7.5692859e-05
4,361	The Complexity of Resilience and Responsibility for Self-Join-Free Conjunctive Queries	2016	VLDB	6.2559141e-05
4,937	New Results for the Complexity of Resilience for Binary Conjunctive Queries with Self-Joins	2020	PODS	5.8187108e-05
5,191	Going Beyond Provenance: Explaining Query Answers with Pattern-based Counterbalances	2019	SIGMOD	5.6378768e-05
5,418	High-Level Why-Not Explanations using Ontologies	2015	PODS	5.5178123e-05
5,733	Explaining Wrong Queries Using Small Examples	2019	SIGMOD	5.3483446e-05
6,573	EFQ: Why-Not Answer Polynomials in Action	2015	VLDB	5.0058435e-05
6,943	TRAMP: Understanding the Behavior of Schema Mappings through Provenance	2010	VLDB	4.8916728e-05
7,022	A Unified Approach for Resilience and Causal Responsibility with Integer Linear Programming (ILP) and LP Relaxations	2023	SIGMOD	4.8576599e-05
8,954	Understanding Queries by Conditional Instances	2022	SIGMOD	4.4221863e-05
9,240	ZIP: Lazy Imputation during Query Processing	2024	VLDB	4.3690661e-05
10,631	Is Integer Linear Programming All You Need for Deletion Propagation?	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
652	On the Provenance of Non-Answers to Queries over Extracted Data	2008	VLDB	0.00018634477

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