Believe It or Not: Adding Belief Annotations to Databases

Summary: Proposes Belief Databases enabling belief-annotated data and annotations to capture disagreement in collaborative scientific repositories. Grounded in a fragment of multi-agent epistemic logic, it uses a canonical Kripke structure and translates queries to relational queries. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9841
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2009
Pagerank: 5.3078955e-05
Overall Rank: 5,837 | 59.44%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,557	Managing Structured Collections of Community Data	2011	CIDR	6.0815338e-05
6,019	Linearized and Single-Pass Belief Propagation	2015	VLDB	5.2365238e-05
7,647	User Guidance for Efficient Fact Checking	2019	VLDB	4.6844821e-05
8,705	Data Conflict Resolution Using Trust Mappings	2010	SIGMOD	4.4589067e-05
9,175	InsightNotes: Summary-Based Annotation Management in Relational Databases	2014	SIGMOD	4.3806741e-05
11,916	Even Metadata is Getting Big: Annotation Summarization using InsightNotes	2015	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
11,930	Proactive Annotation Management in Relational Databases	2015	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
49	Consistent Query Answers in Inconsistent Databases	1999	PODS	0.00067607389
103	ULDBs: Databases with Uncertainty and Lineage	2006	VLDB	0.00049520051
149	Trio: A System for Integrated Management of Data, Accuracy, and Lineage	2005	CIDR	0.00041085859
561	An Annotation Management System for Relational Databases	2004	VLDB	0.00020099434
630	Management of Probabilistic Data: Foundations and Challenges	2007	PODS	0.00018942778
677	ConQuer: Efficient Management of Inconsistent Databases	2005	SIGMOD	0.00018250681
836	Mapping Data in Peer-to-Peer Systems: Semantics and Algorithmic Issues	2003	SIGMOD	0.00016066053
1,824	DBNotes: A Post-It System for Relational Databases based on Provenance	2005	SIGMOD	0.00010395269
1,926	Reconciling while Tolerating Disagreement in Collaborative Data Sharing	2006	SIGMOD	0.00010071441
2,073	Orchestra: Facilitating Collaborative Data Sharing	2007	SIGMOD	9.6287026e-05
2,203	Update Semantics for Incomplete Databases	1985	VLDB	9.2995519e-05
2,493	From Complete to Incomplete Information and Back	2007	SIGMOD	8.6470623e-05
2,529	Provenance Management in Curated Databases	2006	SIGMOD	8.5944731e-05
2,715	Query Processing in Deductive Databases with Incomplete Information	1986	SIGMOD	8.2411079e-05
2,839	Intensional Associations Between Data and Metadata	2007	SIGMOD	8.0423129e-05
6,610	bdbms – A Database Management System for Biological Data	2007	CIDR	4.990718e-05

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