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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
0.00013666629
Overall Rank
819 | 94.50%
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)

Showing 49 of 49 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
1,051 Tiresias: The Database Oracle for How-To Queries 2012 SIGMOD 0.00012279821
1,765 Putting Lipstick on Pig: Enabling Database-style Workflow Provenance 2012 VLDB 9.6955585e-05
1,814 ProvSQL: Provenance and Probability Management in PostgreSQL 2018 VLDB 9.5800565e-05
1,944 Caravan: Provisioning for What-If Analysis 2013 CIDR 9.3281326e-05
2,222 Explaining Query Answers with Explanation-Ready Databases 2016 VLDB 8.8109051e-05
2,418 The Semiring Framework for Database Provenance 2017 PODS 8.4928222e-05
2,488 Computing Local Sensitivities of Counting Queries with Joins 2020 SIGMOD 8.3973087e-05
2,598 Complaint-driven Training Data Debugging for Query 2.0 2020 SIGMOD 8.2385793e-05
2,843 Data Provenance at Internet Scale: Architecture, Experiences, and the Road Ahead 2017 CIDR 7.9491056e-05
4,176 Aggregation in Probabilistic Databases via Knowledge Compilation 2012 VLDB 6.7573044e-05
4,195 PrIU: A Provenance-Based Approach for Incrementally Updating Regression Models 2020 SIGMOD 6.7422305e-05
4,739 Going Beyond Provenance: Explaining Query Answers with Pattern-based Counterbalances 2019 SIGMOD 6.4441962e-05
4,847 Explaining Wrong Queries Using Small Examples 2019 SIGMOD 6.3823876e-05
4,919 Efficient Answering of Historical What-if Queries 2022 SIGMOD 6.3544814e-05
5,247 Enabling SQL-based Training Data Debugging for Federated Learning 2022 VLDB 6.2121767e-05
5,529 Putting Things into Context: Rich Explanations for Query Answers using Join Graphs 2021 SIGMOD 6.0935553e-05
6,436 Summarized Causal Explanations For Aggregate Views 2024 SIGMOD 5.7853643e-05
6,699 Toward Interpretable and Actionable Data Analysis with Explanations and Causality 2022 VLDB 5.7058728e-05
6,794 Snapshot Semantics for Temporal Multiset Relations 2019 VLDB 5.6806763e-05
7,208 Dataset Relationship Management 2019 CIDR 5.584745e-05
7,234 Hypothetical Reasoning via Provenance Abstraction 2019 SIGMOD 5.5792063e-05
7,237 Labeling Workflow Views with Fine-Grained Dependencies 2012 VLDB 5.5785819e-05
8,062 Evaluating Top-k Queries with Inconsistency Degrees 2020 VLDB 5.3955302e-05
8,330 Computing How-Provenance for SPARQL Queries via Query Rewriting 2021 VLDB 5.353568e-05
8,355 FEDEX: An Explainability Framework for Data Exploration Steps 2022 VLDB 5.3482186e-05
8,426 Efficient Uncertainty Tracking for Complex Queries with Attribute-level Bounds 2021 SIGMOD 5.3350162e-05
8,495 Provenance-based Data Skipping 2022 VLDB 5.3304338e-05
8,855 Advancing Fact Attribution for Query Answering: Aggregate Queries and Novel Algorithms 2025 VLDB 5.2638827e-05
8,881 DPXPlain: Privately Explaining Aggregate Query Answers 2023 VLDB 5.2567693e-05
8,892 FaDE: More Than a Million What-ifs Per Second 2025 VLDB 5.2559789e-05
8,939 Compact, Tamper-Resistant Archival of Fine-Grained Provenance 2021 VLDB 5.255502e-05
9,019 Complaint-Driven Training Data Debugging at Interactive Speeds 2022 SIGMOD 5.2364886e-05
9,061 Understanding Queries by Conditional Instances 2022 SIGMOD 5.2289882e-05
9,373 Query-Guided Resolution in Uncertain Databases 2023 SIGMOD 5.1868213e-05
9,374 Efficient Approximation of Certain and Possible Answers for Ranking and Window Queries over Uncertain Data 2023 VLDB 5.1868213e-05
9,402 Collaborative Access Control in WebdamLog 2015 SIGMOD 5.1842615e-05
9,596 Equivalence-Invariant Algebraic Provenance for Hyperplane Update Queries 2020 SIGMOD 5.1558618e-05
9,787 ProvCite: Provenance-based Data Citation 2019 VLDB 5.1276016e-05
10,195 Evaluating Continuous Queries with Inconsistency Annotations 2025 VLDB 5.0623376e-05
10,252 PROPOLIS: Provisioned Analysis of Data-Centric Processes 2013 VLDB 5.0513813e-05
10,739 Database Views as Explanations for Relational Deep Learning 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,095 Smallest Synthetic Witnesses for Conjunctive Queries 2025 PODS 4.9793485e-05
11,119 SHARQ: Explainability Framework for Association Rules on Relational Data 2025 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
11,143 CauSumX: Summarized Causal Explanations For Group-By-Average Queries 2025 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
11,450 SDEcho: Efficient Explanation of Aggregated Sequence Difference 2025 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,975 On Optimizing the Trade-off between Privacy and Utility in Data Provenance 2021 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
12,161 RATest: Explaining Wrong Relational Queries Using Small Examples 2019 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
12,503 A Provenance Framework for Data-Dependent Process Analysis 2014 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
12,582 On Scaling Up Sensitive Data Auditing 2013 VLDB 4.9793485e-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 0.00059752575
62 Maintaining Views Incrementally 1993 SIGMOD 0.00039045511
578 The Complexity of Causality and Responsibility for Query Answers and non-Answers 2011 VLDB 0.00016096504
622 On the Provenance of Non-Answers to Queries over Extracted Data 2008 VLDB 0.00015484312
978 Incremental Query Evaluation in a Ring of Databases 2010 PODS 0.00012731074
1,365 A Unified Approach to Ranking in Probabilistic Databases 2009 VLDB 0.00010913898
1,549 Conditioning Probabilistic Databases 2008 VLDB 0.00010288725
1,555 Update Exchange with Mappings and Provenance 2007 VLDB 0.00010269848
1,827 Querying Data Provenance 2010 SIGMOD 9.5545888e-05
2,002 Orchestra: Facilitating Collaborative Data Sharing 2007 SIGMOD 9.208994e-05
3,368 Efficient Querying and Maintenance of Network Provenance at Internet-Scale 2010 SIGMOD 7.3701213e-05
5,611 Annotated XML: Queries and Provenance 2008 PODS 6.0684862e-05
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