BugDoc: A System for Debugging Computational Pipelines
Summary: Provenance-driven automatic root-cause inference for complex pipelines, with iterative, succinct failure explanations. BugDoc demonstrates debugging from few configurations, enabling automatic triage and actionable insights for data-intensive workflows. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Raoni Lourenço (New York University)
- 2. Juliana Freire (New York University)
- 3. Dennis Shasha (New York University)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{lourenco_sigmod20,
title = {{BugDoc: A System for Debugging Computational Pipelines}},
author = {Lourenço, Raoni and Freire, Juliana and Shasha, Dennis},
series = {{SIGMOD} '20},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3318464.3384692},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3318464.3384692},
year = {2020}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 7,028 | Explaining Inference Queries with Bayesian Optimization | 2021 | VLDB | 5.6177289e-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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 878 | Interpretable and Informative Explanations of Outcomes | 2015 | VLDB | 0.00013302631 |
| 2,686 | Data X-Ray: A Diagnostic Tool for Data Errors | 2015 | SIGMOD | 8.1308928e-05 |
| 2,843 | Data Provenance at Internet Scale: Architecture, Experiences, and the Road Ahead | 2017 | CIDR | 7.9491056e-05 |
| 7,626 | BugDoc: Algorithms to Debug Computational Processes | 2020 | SIGMOD | 5.4814815e-05 |
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