Dependencies for Graphs

Summary: GEDs: graph-pattern + attribute-dependency rules unifying graph-FDs with constant literals (to catch inconsistencies) and id-literals to represent keys. Develop a confluent chase, settle satisfiability/implication/validation decision complexity (±constants/ids), give a sound-and-complete finite-implication axiom system, and analyze extensions with built-ins/disjunction. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h2248a61c123784c8
Venue: PODS
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 8.5625389e-05
Overall Rank: 2,365 | 84.11%
DOI: 10.1145/3034786.3056114

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Wenfei Fan (Beihang University; University of Edinburgh)
2. Ping Lu (Beihang University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{fan_pods17,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '17},
        title = {{Dependencies for Graphs}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3034786.3056114},
        doi = {10.1145/3034786.3056114},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Fan, Wenfei and Lu, Ping},
        year = {2017}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 23 of 23 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,831	PG-Keys: Keys for Property Graphs	2021	SIGMOD	7.9564949e-05
5,238	Implementation Strategies for Views over Property Graphs	2024	SIGMOD	6.2147408e-05
5,800	Normalizing Property Graphs	2023	VLDB	5.9876984e-05
7,228	Certus: An Effective Entity Resolution Approach with Graph Differential Dependencies (GDDs)	2019	VLDB	5.5783924e-05
7,245	Discovering Graph Functional Dependencies	2018	SIGMOD	5.5741839e-05
7,345	Discovering Association Rules from Big Graphs	2022	VLDB	5.5453863e-05
7,483	Extending Graph Patterns with Conditions	2020	SIGMOD	5.5124816e-05
8,225	Towards Event Prediction in Temporal Graphs	2022	VLDB	5.3737187e-05
8,299	Capturing Associations in Graphs	2020	VLDB	5.3587491e-05
8,403	Deducing Certain Fixes to Graphs	2019	VLDB	5.3374114e-05
8,597	Ontology-based Entity Matching in Attributed Graphs	2019	VLDB	5.3046172e-05
9,301	Knowledge Translation	2020	VLDB	5.1978467e-05
9,737	Explaining GNN-based Recommendations in Logic	2025	VLDB	5.1325223e-05
9,813	Making It Tractable to Catch Duplicates and Conflicts in Graphs	2023	SIGMOD	5.1233734e-05
11,115	Entity/Relationship Graphs: Principled Design, Modeling, and Data Integrity Management of Graph Databases	2025	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05
11,130	User-Centric Property Graph Repairs	2025	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05
11,162	Grafixer: Enabling User-Centric Repairs for Property Graphs	2025	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05
11,195	Rule-Based Graph Cleaning with GPUs on a Single Machine	2025	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05
11,434	Versatile Property Graph Transformations	2025	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
11,556	Capturing More Associations by Referencing External Graphs	2024	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
11,569	Extending Graph Rules with Oracles	2024	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
11,967	Temporal Dependencies for Graphs	2021	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05
12,216	Catching Numeric Inconsistencies in Graphs	2018	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
33	Consistent Query Answers in Inconsistent Databases	1999	PODS	0.00049326063
1,575	Generalized Schema-Mappings: From Termination To Tractability	2009	PODS	0.00010189889
1,710	A Normal Form for XML Documents	2002	PODS	9.815332e-05
2,565	On XML Integrity Constraints in the Presence of DTDs	2001	PODS	8.2870757e-05
3,027	Functional Dependencies for Graphs	2016	SIGMOD	7.7351194e-05
3,317	Keys for Graphs	2015	VLDB	7.432944e-05
4,233	The Interaction between Functional Dependencies and Template Dependencies	1980	SIGMOD	6.7104541e-05
7,187	Exploiting Equality Generating Dependencies in Checking Chase Termination	2016	VLDB	5.5886012e-05

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