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Provenance Semirings

Summary: Comm. semirings unify provenance: bag, probabilistic, incomplete DBs and why‑provenance are instances and positive relational-algebra semantics factor through semiring homomorphisms. Proposes polynomial/formal‑power‑series provenance, extends to Datalog via fixed‑point semirings and gives algorithms to decide/compute finite series and monomial coefficients. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h5dd3a15a7e2c5fe0
Venue
PODS
Year
2007
Pagerank
0.00059752575
Overall Rank
17 | 99.89%
DOI
10.1145/1265530.1265535

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{green_pods07,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '07},
        title = {{Provenance Semirings}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1265530.1265535},
        doi = {10.1145/1265530.1265535},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Green, Todd J. and Karvounarakis, Grigoris and Tannen, Val},
        year = {2007}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 50 of 182 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
7,819 You Say ‘What’, I Hear ‘Where’ and ‘Why’ — (Mis-)Interpreting SQL to Derive Fine-Grained Provenance 2018 VLDB 5.4466474e-05
7,917 Avoiding Materialisation for Guarded Aggregate Queries 2025 VLDB 5.4276002e-05
7,931 SlabCity: Whole-Query Optimization using Program Synthesis 2023 VLDB 5.4238328e-05
7,951 Provenance: On and Behind the Screens 2016 SIGMOD 5.4199617e-05
8,008 Differentially Private Data Release over Multiple Tables 2023 PODS 5.4075828e-05
8,062 Evaluating Top-k Queries with Inconsistency Degrees 2020 VLDB 5.3955302e-05
8,073 Tight Bounds of Circuits for Sum-Product Queries 2024 PODS 5.3942942e-05
8,076 Provenance-Enabled Explainable AI 2024 SIGMOD 5.3942942e-05
8,081 Saibot: A Differentially Private Data Search Platform 2023 VLDB 5.3942942e-05
8,275 The Complexity of Why-Provenance for Datalog Queries 2024 PODS 5.3641687e-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
8,697 Aggregate Queries on Sparse Databases 2020 PODS 5.2905577e-05
8,760 Beta Probabilistic Databases: A Scalable Approach to Belief Updating and Parameter Learning 2017 SIGMOD 5.283642e-05
8,762 Minimally Factorizing the Provenance of Self-join Free Conjunctive Queries 2024 PODS 5.283642e-05
8,881 DPXPlain: Privately Explaining Aggregate Query Answers 2023 VLDB 5.2567693e-05
8,886 FastPDB: Towards Bag-Probabilistic Queries at Interactive Speeds 2025 SIGMOD 5.2559789e-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
9,095 A Demonstration of TripleProv: Tracking and Querying Provenance over Web Data 2015 VLDB 5.2283159e-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
9,404 Enabling Personal Consent in Databases 2022 VLDB 5.1828865e-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
9,894 Data Integration and Data Exchange: It’s Really About Time 2013 CIDR 5.1129187e-05
9,940 NLProv: Natural Language Provenance 2016 VLDB 5.1062975e-05
10,129 ParSEval: Plan-aware Test Database Generation for SQL Equivalence Evaluation 2025 VLDB 5.0751052e-05
10,149 Datalog with First-Class Facts 2025 VLDB 5.0715586e-05
10,195 Evaluating Continuous Queries with Inconsistency Annotations 2025 VLDB 5.0623376e-05
10,196 Ariadne: Online Provenance for Big Graph Analytics 2019 SIGMOD 5.0623376e-05
10,252 PROPOLIS: Provisioned Analysis of Data-Centric Processes 2013 VLDB 5.0513813e-05
10,262 Automating Vectorized Distributed Graph Computation 2024 SIGMOD 5.050482e-05
10,343 Please Don't Kill My Vibe: Empowering Agents with Data Flow Control 2026 CIDR 4.9793485e-05
10,363 Acyclic Conjunctive Regular Path Queries are no Harder than Corresponding Conjunctive Queries 2026 PODS 4.9793485e-05
10,383 Recursive Querying of Neural Networks via Weighted Structures 2026 PODS 4.9793485e-05
10,394 Codd's Theorem for Databases over Semirings 2026 PODS 4.9793485e-05
10,544 Approximate Query Processing under Updates 2026 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
10,828 Toward Temporal Attribution Analytics in Dataflows 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
10,841 Bolt-on, Verifiable Provenance for LLM-Powered Data Processing 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
10,879 Computing Why-Provenance for Property Graph Queries 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
10,884 FlowLog: Efficient and Extensible Datalog via Incrementality 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
10,981 NiceT: Named Entity Cleaning and Enhancement with Human-in-the-loop 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,082 Circuit Bounds for Conjunctive Queries with Self-joins 2025 PODS 4.9793485e-05
11,083 Circuits and Formulas for Datalog over Semirings 2025 PODS 4.9793485e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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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 0.00042936299
84 ULDBs: Databases with Uncertainty and Lineage 2006 VLDB 0.00035963861
390 Conjunctive-Query Containment and Constraint Satisfaction 1998 PODS 0.00019248147
531 The Magic of Duplicates and Aggregates 1990 VLDB 0.00016847212
845 Debugging Schema Mappings with Routes 2006 VLDB 0.00013526977
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