Interactive Summarization and Exploration of Top Aggregate Query Answers

Summary: Interactive summarization and exploration of top-k aggregate answers; clustering top-valued results into diverse groups. Formalizes optimization problems, analyzes semilattice cluster structure, and proposes algorithms; validates via GUI prototype. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h0a34fc5e8cce9377
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2018
Pagerank: 6.4440072e-05
Overall Rank: 4,731 | 68.21%
DOI: 10.14778/3275366.3275369
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Authors

1. Yuhao Wen (Duke University)
2. Xiaodan Zhu (Duke University)
3. Sudeepa Roy (Duke University)
4. Jun Yang (Duke University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{wen_vldb18,
        title = {{Interactive Summarization and Exploration of Top Aggregate Query Answers}},
        author = {Wen, Yuhao and Zhu, Xiaodan and Roy, Sudeepa and Yang, Jun},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '18},
        volume = {11},
        number = {13},
        pages = {2196--2208},
        doi = {10.14778/3275366.3275369},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3275366.3275369},
        year = {2018}
}

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5,533	Putting Things into Context: Rich Explanations for Query Answers using Join Graphs	2021	SIGMOD	6.0906707e-05
6,438	Summarized Causal Explanations For Aggregate Views	2024	SIGMOD	5.7826256e-05
6,703	Toward Interpretable and Actionable Data Analysis with Explanations and Causality	2022	VLDB	5.7031717e-05
7,148	Guided Exploration of Data Summaries	2022	VLDB	5.5967192e-05
7,207	QAGView: Interactively Summarizing High-Valued Aggregate Query Answers	2018	SIGMOD	5.5836855e-05
9,528	Efficient Exploration of Interesting Aggregates in RDF Graphs	2021	SIGMOD	5.1658503e-05
10,636	Causal Explanations for Disparate Trends: Where and Why?	2026	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05
10,641	Data-Semantics-Aware Recommendation of Diverse Pivot Tables	2026	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05
11,521	Counterfactual Explanation at Will, with Zero Privacy Leakage	2024	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05
11,906	EDA4SUM: Guided Exploration of Data Summaries	2022	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
11,985	Exploring Ratings in Subjective Databases	2021	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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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
480	The Making of TPC-DS	2006	VLDB	0.00017615432
984	User-adaptive exploration of multidimensional data	2000	VLDB	0.00012680398
1,054	Answering Complex SQL Queries Using Automatic Summary Tables	2000	SIGMOD	0.00012263425
1,476	Diversifying Top-K Results	2012	VLDB	0.00010546498
1,758	Semantic Compression and Pattern Extraction with Fascicles	1999	VLDB	9.7095435e-05
1,851	DisC Diversity: Result Diversification based on Dissimilarity and Coverage	2013	VLDB	9.499317e-05
1,937	Max-Sum Diversification, Monotone Submodular Functions and Dynamic Updates	2012	PODS	9.334308e-05
2,177	Top-k Bounded Diversification	2012	SIGMOD	8.9132232e-05
3,338	On the Complexity of Query Result Diversification	2013	VLDB	7.4068199e-05
3,980	Diversified Top-k Graph Pattern Matching	2013	VLDB	6.87704e-05
7,207	QAGView: Interactively Summarizing High-Valued Aggregate Query Answers	2018	SIGMOD	5.5836855e-05

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