Event Queries on Correlated Probabilistic Streams

Summary: Lahar: an event-processing engine for correlated probabilistic streams from noisy data. Static analysis and novel algorithms yield higher recall/precision and orders-of-magnitude speedups over naive sampling. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h28bf4316bd95f8f6
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2008
Pagerank: 7.6099057e-05
Overall Rank: 3,120 | 79.09%
DOI: 10.1145/1376616.1376688

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Christopher Ré (University of Washington)
2. Julie Letchner (University of Washington)
3. Magdalena Balazinska (University of Washington)
4. Dan Suciu (University of Washington)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{re_sigmod08,
        title = {{Event Queries on Correlated Probabilistic Streams}},
        author = {Ré, Christopher and Letchner, Julie and Balazinska, Magdalena and Suciu, Dan},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '08},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1376616.1376688},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1376616.1376688},
        year = {2008}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 18 of 18 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,067	Tuffy: Scaling up Statistical Inference in Markov Logic Networks using an RDBMS	2011	VLDB	0.00012170631
5,602	Indexing Correlated Probabilistic Databases	2009	SIGMOD	6.0519265e-05
5,822	Incrementally Maintaining Classification using an RDBMS	2011	VLDB	5.9655757e-05
5,912	Recognizing Patterns in Streams with Imprecise Timestamps	2010	VLDB	5.9332754e-05
6,651	Probabilistic XML via Markov Chains	2010	VLDB	5.7046046e-05
6,867	Capturing Data Uncertainty in High-Volume Stream Processing	2009	CIDR	5.644892e-05
8,212	Lineage Processing over Correlated Probabilistic Databases	2010	SIGMOD	5.3607873e-05
8,472	Access Control over Uncertain Data	2008	VLDB	5.3148581e-05
8,737	Online Windowed Subsequence Matching over Probabilistic Sequences	2012	SIGMOD	5.2705676e-05
8,776	Probabilistic Management of OCR Data using an RDBMS	2012	VLDB	5.2666658e-05
9,648	Probabilistic Nearest Neighbor Queries on Uncertain Moving Object Trajectories	2014	VLDB	5.132694e-05
9,936	Data Integration and Data Exchange: It’s Really About Time	2013	CIDR	5.0936191e-05
11,276	Scalable Complex Event Processing on Video Streams	2025	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05
12,580	E-Matching: Event Processing over Noisy Sequences in Real Time	2013	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05
12,741	Distributed Inference and Query Processing for RFID Tracking and Monitoring	2011	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
12,748	Transducing Markov Sequences	2010	PODS	4.9605343e-05
12,938	Systems Aspects of Probabilistic Data Management	2008	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
14,102	Lahar Demonstration: Warehousing Markovian Streams	2009	VLDB	-

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
51	Efficient Query Evaluation on Probabilistic Databases	2004	VLDB	0.00042804864
85	ULDBs: Databases with Uncertainty and Lineage	2006	VLDB	0.00035848027
241	High-Performance Complex Event Processing over Streams	2006	SIGMOD	0.00023332645
1,071	The Dichotomy of Conjunctive Queries on Probabilistic Structures	2007	PODS	0.00012154243
1,113	A Formal Analysis of Information Disclosure in Data Exchange	2004	SIGMOD	0.00011942006
1,363	Adaptive Cleaning for RFID Data Streams	2006	VLDB	0.00010882694
2,050	Temporal Management of RFID Data	2005	VLDB	9.1090557e-05
2,749	Sketching Probabilistic Data Streams	2007	SIGMOD	8.0426455e-05
2,996	Materialized Views in Probabilistic Databases: For Information Exchange and Query Optimization	2007	VLDB	7.7548593e-05
3,049	Estimating Statistical Aggregates on Probabilistic Data Streams	2007	PODS	7.6987705e-05
4,010	What is "Next" in Event Processing?	2007	PODS	6.842669e-05

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