Explanation-Based Auditing

Summary: Introduces explanation-based auditing: automatically generate rationale for data-access events using templates inferred from database content (e.g., appointments). Learns collaborative user groups to improve explanations; evaluated on EHR logs with >94% explainability. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h31be9945516d546d
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2012
Pagerank: 7.5641515e-05
Overall Rank: 3,161 | 78.82%
DOI: 10.14778/2047485.2047486

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Daniel Fabbri (University of Michigan)
2. Kristen LeFevre (University of Michigan)

BibTeX Citation

@article{fabbri_vldb12,
        title = {{Explanation-Based Auditing}},
        author = {Fabbri, Daniel and LeFevre, Kristen},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '12},
        volume = {5},
        number = {1},
        doi = {10.14778/2047485.2047486},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2047485.2047486},
        year = {2012}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
672	A Formal Approach to Finding Explanations for Database Queries	2014	SIGMOD	0.00014903109
2,233	Explaining Query Answers with Explanation-Ready Databases	2016	VLDB	8.7844607e-05
2,685	Data X-Ray: A Diagnostic Tool for Data Errors	2015	SIGMOD	8.116387e-05
2,730	Partial Results in Database Systems	2014	SIGMOD	8.0676725e-05
4,085	The Complexity of Resilience and Responsibility for Self-Join-Free Conjunctive Queries	2016	VLDB	6.7989526e-05
4,852	QFix: Diagnosing Errors through Query Histories	2017	SIGMOD	6.3680596e-05
6,608	Explain3D: Explaining Disagreements in Disjoint Datasets	2019	VLDB	5.7187078e-05
12,563	Stop That Query! The Need for Managing Data Use	2013	CIDR	4.9605343e-05
12,588	The Power of Data Use Management in Action	2013	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-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
29	Fast Algorithms for Mining Association Rules	1994	VLDB	0.00051028332
165	Mining Frequent Patterns without Candidate Generation	2000	SIGMOD	0.00027323925
389	Why Not?	2009	SIGMOD	0.00019254758
570	Extending Query Rewriting Techniques for Fine-Grained Access Control	2004	SIGMOD	0.00016201674
1,008	Integrating Association Rule Mining with Relational Database Systems: Alternatives and Implications	1998	SIGMOD	0.00012527069
2,164	Auditing Compliance with a Hippocratic Database	2004	VLDB	8.9185215e-05
5,848	PolicyReplay: Misconfiguration-Response Queries for Data Breach Reporting	2010	VLDB	5.9533312e-05
6,859	Efficient Auditing For Complex SQL queries	2011	SIGMOD	5.6464901e-05

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