On the Complexity of Managing Probabilistic XML Data

Summary: Complexity analysis of probabilistic XML (unordered labeled trees with node conjunctions of probabilistic events), identifying a large tractable class where simple query/update algorithms succeed. Decision procedure for tree equivalence in co-RP; pruning low-probability worlds and DTD validation intractable. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h531583b84715d4a5
Venue: PODS
Year: 2007
Pagerank: 7.3292374e-05
Overall Rank: 3,390 | 77.28%
DOI: 10.1145/1265530.1265570

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Authors

1. Pierre Senellart (INRIA; Paris-Sud University)
2. Serge Abiteboul (INRIA; Paris-Sud University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{senellart_pods07,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '07},
        title = {{On the Complexity of Managing Probabilistic XML Data}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1265530.1265570},
        doi = {10.1145/1265530.1265570},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Senellart, Pierre and Abiteboul, Serge},
        year = {2007}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,143	Matching Twigs in Probabilistic XML	2007	VLDB	7.5857903e-05
4,997	Efficient Subgraph Search over Large Uncertain Graphs	2011	VLDB	6.3093118e-05
5,495	Running Tree Automata on Probabilistic XML	2009	PODS	6.0944915e-05
5,623	Annotated XML: Queries and Provenance	2008	PODS	6.045738e-05
7,080	Query Efficiency in Probabilistic XML Models	2008	SIGMOD	5.5901209e-05
8,951	Incorporating Constraints in Probabilistic XML	2008	PODS	5.2361195e-05
9,858	ProApproX: A Lightweight Approximation Query Processor over Probabilistic Trees	2011	SIGMOD	5.1064323e-05
12,665	Answering Queries using Views over Probabilistic XML: Complexity and Tractability	2012	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
12,832	XML with Incomplete Information: Models, Properties, and Query Answering	2009	PODS	4.9605343e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 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
127	Trio: A System for Integrated Management of Data, Accuracy, and Lineage	2005	CIDR	0.00030337791
573	The Theory of Probabilistic Databases	1987	VLDB	0.00016152578
2,145	The reliability of queries (Extended Abstract)	1995	PODS	8.9623192e-05
2,627	ProTDB: Probabilistic Data in XML	2002	VLDB	8.1909465e-05

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