A Quest for Beauty and Wealth (or, Business Processes for Database Researchers)

Summary: Calls for a unified flow-and-data framework for business processes, integrating control-flow, users, goals and data to enable declarative modeling and analysis. Surveys progress, pinpoints gaps where process and data remain disjoint and outlines research directions. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: ha4980da6014d65c7
Venue: PODS
Year: 2011
Pagerank: 6.0533802e-05
Overall Rank: 5,644 | 62.06%
DOI: 10.1145/1989284.1989286

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Daniel Deutch (Ben Gurion University)
2. Tova Milo (Tel Aviv University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{deutch_pods11,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '11},
        title = {{A Quest for Beauty and Wealth (or, Business Processes for Database Researchers)}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1989284.1989286},
        doi = {10.1145/1989284.1989286},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Deutch, Daniel and Milo, Tova},
        year = {2011}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,711	Foundations of Data-Aware Process Analysis: A Database Theory Perspective	2013	PODS	8.1038896e-05
4,433	Efficient External-Memory Bisimulation on DAGs	2012	SIGMOD	6.6015942e-05
5,645	Repairing Vertex Labels under Neighborhood Constraints	2014	VLDB	6.0533594e-05
11,697	How To Optimize My Blockchain? A Multi-Level Recommendation Approach	2023	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 18 of 18 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
17	Provenance Semirings	2007	PODS	0.00059752575
622	On the Provenance of Non-Answers to Queries over Extracted Data	2008	VLDB	0.00015484312
1,176	Relational Transducers for Electronic Commerce	1998	PODS	0.00011643011
1,388	Provenance for Generalized Map and Reduce Workflows	2011	CIDR	0.00010821908
1,555	Update Exchange with Mappings and Provenance	2007	VLDB	0.00010269848
2,164	Verification of Communicating Data-Driven Web Services	2006	PODS	8.9346715e-05
2,956	Business Process Cockpit	2002	VLDB	7.8080092e-05
3,368	Efficient Querying and Maintenance of Network Provenance at Internet-Scale	2010	SIGMOD	7.3701213e-05
3,458	A Verifier for Interactive, Data-driven Web Applications	2005	SIGMOD	7.284865e-05
3,995	An Approach to Optimize Data Processing in Business Processes	2007	VLDB	6.86657e-05
4,170	Specification and Verification of Data-driven Web Services	2004	PODS	6.7615597e-05
5,611	Annotated XML: Queries and Provenance	2008	PODS	6.0684862e-05
5,748	An Optimal Labeling Scheme for Workflow Provenance Using Skeleton Labels	2010	SIGMOD	6.0079624e-05
6,637	Probabilistic XML via Markov Chains	2010	VLDB	5.7262369e-05
7,503	Static Analysis of Active XML Systems	2008	PODS	5.5076551e-05
8,925	Monitoring Business Processes with Queries	2007	VLDB	5.2559789e-05
12,769	Optimal Top-K Query Evaluation for Weighted Business Processes	2010	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
12,865	Type Inference and Type Checking for Queries on Execution Traces	2008	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

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