Conditioning Probabilistic Databases

Summary: Introduces exact conditioning of probabilistic databases: materializing posterior distributions by filtering worlds on evidence, closely tied to exact tuple confidence. DP-style decomposition and CSP heuristics make NP-hard tasks scalable, often rivaling approximation methods. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: h4077004496e3a6ab
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2008
Pagerank: 0.00010257014
Overall Rank: 1,551 | 89.61%
DOI: 10.14778/1453856.1453892

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Christoph Koch (Cornell University)
2. Dan Olteanu (University of Oxford)

BibTeX Citation

@article{koch_vldb08,
        title = {{Conditioning Probabilistic Databases}},
        author = {Koch, Christoph and Olteanu, Dan},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '08},
        volume = {1},
        number = {1},
        pages = {313--325},
        doi = {10.14778/1453856.1453892},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1453856.1453892},
        year = {2008}
}

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811	Provenance for Aggregate Queries	2011	PODS	0.00013713646
1,367	A Unified Approach to Ranking in Probabilistic Databases	2009	VLDB	0.00010878876
2,131	Discovery of Genuine Functional Dependencies from Relational Data with Missing Values	2018	VLDB	8.9867472e-05
2,817	MayBMS: A Probabilistic Database Management System	2009	SIGMOD	7.9538485e-05
2,869	Secondary-Storage Confidence Computation for Conjunctive Queries with Inequalities	2009	SIGMOD	7.9042921e-05
3,104	On Optimizing Operator Fusion Plans for Large-Scale Machine Learning in SystemML	2018	VLDB	7.6281929e-05
4,196	Aggregation in Probabilistic Databases via Knowledge Compilation	2012	VLDB	6.7317801e-05
4,671	A Temporal-Probabilistic Database Model for Information Extraction	2013	VLDB	6.4604309e-05
4,784	Probabilistic Databases with MarkoViews	2012	VLDB	6.4040482e-05
5,602	Indexing Correlated Probabilistic Databases	2009	SIGMOD	6.0519265e-05
5,813	MCDB-R: Risk Analysis in the Database	2010	VLDB	5.9684976e-05
5,986	Understanding Cardinality Estimation using Entropy Maximization	2010	PODS	5.9085861e-05
5,997	Querying Uncertain Data with Aggregate Constraints	2011	SIGMOD	5.9036298e-05
6,867	Capturing Data Uncertainty in High-Volume Stream Processing	2009	CIDR	5.644892e-05
8,450	Tuple-Independent Representations of Infinite Probabilistic Databases	2021	PODS	5.3148581e-05
8,787	Beta Probabilistic Databases: A Scalable Approach to Belief Updating and Parameter Learning	2017	SIGMOD	5.263678e-05
9,408	Query-Guided Resolution in Uncertain Databases	2023	SIGMOD	5.1672232e-05
9,644	Ranking Distributed Probabilistic Data	2009	SIGMOD	5.1334081e-05
12,558	Υ-DB: Managing scientific hypotheses as uncertain data	2014	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
12,757	GRN Model of Probabilistic Databases: Construction, Transition and Querying	2010	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
85	ULDBs: Databases with Uncertainty and Lineage	2006	VLDB	0.00035848027
590	Management of Probabilistic Data: Foundations and Challenges	2007	PODS	0.00015876538
661	The Complexity of Query Reliability	1998	PODS	0.00014996933
4,232	Approximating Predicates and Expressive Queries on Probabilistic Databases	2008	PODS	6.7043637e-05

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