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Provenance for Aggregate Queries

Summary: Shows semiring tuple annotations fail for aggregate queries; proposes value-level provenance that annotates individual attribute values to record how aggregate results are computed. Gives constructions for simple (aggregation-last) and general positive RA with aggregation, and studies semantics including an encoding of difference. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h2320844365ebe4f0
Venue
PODS
Year
2011
Pagerank
0.00013746145
Overall Rank
811 | 94.56%
DOI
10.1145/1989284.1989302

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{amsterdamer_pods11,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '11},
        title = {{Provenance for Aggregate Queries}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1989284.1989302},
        doi = {10.1145/1989284.1989302},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Amsterdamer, Yael and Deutch, Daniel and Tannen, Val},
        year = {2011}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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1,051 Tiresias: The Database Oracle for How-To Queries 2012 SIGMOD 0.00012274277
1,767 Putting Lipstick on Pig: Enabling Database-style Workflow Provenance 2012 VLDB 9.6910812e-05
1,812 ProvSQL: Provenance and Probability Management in PostgreSQL 2018 VLDB 9.5780882e-05
1,941 Caravan: Provisioning for What-If Analysis 2013 CIDR 9.3276626e-05
2,222 Explaining Query Answers with Explanation-Ready Databases 2016 VLDB 8.8106741e-05
2,418 The Semiring Framework for Database Provenance 2017 PODS 8.4904382e-05
2,488 Computing Local Sensitivities of Counting Queries with Joins 2020 SIGMOD 8.3933335e-05
2,600 Complaint-driven Training Data Debugging for Query 2.0 2020 SIGMOD 8.2346824e-05
2,838 Data Provenance at Internet Scale: Architecture, Experiences, and the Road Ahead 2017 CIDR 7.9493532e-05
4,176 Aggregation in Probabilistic Databases via Knowledge Compilation 2012 VLDB 6.7541079e-05
4,197 PrIU: A Provenance-Based Approach for Incrementally Updating Regression Models 2020 SIGMOD 6.7390419e-05
4,741 Going Beyond Provenance: Explaining Query Answers with Pattern-based Counterbalances 2019 SIGMOD 6.4411456e-05
4,849 Explaining Wrong Queries Using Small Examples 2019 SIGMOD 6.3794032e-05
4,920 Efficient Answering of Historical What-if Queries 2022 SIGMOD 6.3514733e-05
5,251 Enabling SQL-based Training Data Debugging for Federated Learning 2022 VLDB 6.2092359e-05
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
6,799 Snapshot Semantics for Temporal Multiset Relations 2019 VLDB 5.6779871e-05
7,210 Dataset Relationship Management 2019 CIDR 5.5821013e-05
7,235 Hypothetical Reasoning via Provenance Abstraction 2019 SIGMOD 5.5765963e-05
7,240 Labeling Workflow Views with Fine-Grained Dependencies 2012 VLDB 5.5759411e-05
8,068 Evaluating Top-k Queries with Inconsistency Degrees 2020 VLDB 5.392976e-05
8,323 Computing How-Provenance for SPARQL Queries via Query Rewriting 2021 VLDB 5.3533379e-05
8,360 FEDEX: An Explainability Framework for Data Exploration Steps 2022 VLDB 5.3456868e-05
8,408 FaDE: More Than a Million What-ifs Per Second 2025 VLDB 5.3364407e-05
8,435 Efficient Uncertainty Tracking for Complex Queries with Attribute-level Bounds 2021 SIGMOD 5.3324907e-05
8,490 Provenance-based Data Skipping 2022 VLDB 5.3302146e-05
8,864 Advancing Fact Attribution for Query Answering: Aggregate Queries and Novel Algorithms 2025 VLDB 5.2613908e-05
8,890 DPXPlain: Privately Explaining Aggregate Query Answers 2023 VLDB 5.2542808e-05
8,947 Compact, Tamper-Resistant Archival of Fine-Grained Provenance 2021 VLDB 5.2530141e-05
9,027 Complaint-Driven Training Data Debugging at Interactive Speeds 2022 SIGMOD 5.2340097e-05
9,069 Understanding Queries by Conditional Instances 2022 SIGMOD 5.2265129e-05
9,382 Query-Guided Resolution in Uncertain Databases 2023 SIGMOD 5.1843659e-05
9,383 Efficient Approximation of Certain and Possible Answers for Ranking and Window Queries over Uncertain Data 2023 VLDB 5.1843659e-05
9,411 Collaborative Access Control in WebdamLog 2015 SIGMOD 5.1818074e-05
9,604 Equivalence-Invariant Algebraic Provenance for Hyperplane Update Queries 2020 SIGMOD 5.1534211e-05
9,793 ProvCite: Provenance-based Data Citation 2019 VLDB 5.1251743e-05
10,200 Evaluating Continuous Queries with Inconsistency Annotations 2025 VLDB 5.0599411e-05
10,257 PROPOLIS: Provisioned Analysis of Data-Centric Processes 2013 VLDB 5.0490212e-05
10,351 Evergreen: Efficient Claim Verification for Semantic Aggregates 2027 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
10,749 Database Views as Explanations for Relational Deep Learning 2026 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
11,104 Smallest Synthetic Witnesses for Conjunctive Queries 2025 PODS 4.9769913e-05
11,128 SHARQ: Explainability Framework for Association Rules on Relational Data 2025 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
11,152 CauSumX: Summarized Causal Explanations For Group-By-Average Queries 2025 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
11,456 SDEcho: Efficient Explanation of Aggregated Sequence Difference 2025 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
11,981 On Optimizing the Trade-off between Privacy and Utility in Data Provenance 2021 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
12,167 RATest: Explaining Wrong Relational Queries Using Small Examples 2019 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
12,509 A Provenance Framework for Data-Dependent Process Analysis 2014 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
12,588 On Scaling Up Sensitive Data Auditing 2013 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 12 of 12 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
17 Provenance Semirings 2007 PODS 0.00059813669
62 Maintaining Views Incrementally 1993 SIGMOD 0.00039040346
578 The Complexity of Causality and Responsibility for Query Answers and non-Answers 2011 VLDB 0.00016093679
621 On the Provenance of Non-Answers to Queries over Extracted Data 2008 VLDB 0.0001548582
977 Incremental Query Evaluation in a Ring of Databases 2010 PODS 0.00012730241
1,360 A Unified Approach to Ranking in Probabilistic Databases 2009 VLDB 0.00010913787
1,548 Conditioning Probabilistic Databases 2008 VLDB 0.00010288842
1,554 Update Exchange with Mappings and Provenance 2007 VLDB 0.00010265583
1,827 Querying Data Provenance 2010 SIGMOD 9.5518797e-05
2,006 Orchestra: Facilitating Collaborative Data Sharing 2007 SIGMOD 9.2046844e-05
3,364 Efficient Querying and Maintenance of Network Provenance at Internet-Scale 2010 SIGMOD 7.3715499e-05
5,612 Annotated XML: Queries and Provenance 2008 PODS 6.0656179e-05
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