Query Efficiency in Probabilistic XML Models

Summary: Unifies probabilistic XML via p-documents with distributional nodes; analyzes twig queries under value- and object-based semantics. Efficient evaluator for a single tractable family; translations across families and approximate methods for the rest. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hb645bb3a79128e51
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2008
Pagerank: 5.5901209e-05
Overall Rank: 7,080 | 52.55%
DOI: 10.1145/1376616.1376687

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Authors

1. Benny Kimelfeld (Hebrew University)
2. Yuri Kosharovsky (Hebrew University)
3. Yehoshua Sagiv (Hebrew University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{kimelfeld_sigmod08,
        title = {{Query Efficiency in Probabilistic XML Models}},
        author = {Kimelfeld, Benny and Kosharovsky, Yuri and Sagiv, Yehoshua},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '08},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1376616.1376687},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1376616.1376687},
        year = {2008}
}

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Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,997	Efficient Subgraph Search over Large Uncertain Graphs	2011	VLDB	6.3093118e-05
5,311	How to Build Templates for RDF Question/Answering —An Uncertain Graph Similarity Join Approach	2015	SIGMOD	6.1703949e-05
5,495	Running Tree Automata on Probabilistic XML	2009	PODS	6.0944915e-05
8,951	Incorporating Constraints in Probabilistic XML	2008	PODS	5.2361195e-05
12,748	Transducing Markov Sequences	2010	PODS	4.9605343e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 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
180	Holistic Twig Joins: Optimal XML Pattern Matching	2002	SIGMOD	0.00026534482
409	Containment and Equivalence for an XPath Fragment [Extended Abstract]	2002	PODS	0.00018797031
661	The Complexity of Query Reliability	1998	PODS	0.00014996933
1,071	The Dichotomy of Conjunctive Queries on Probabilistic Structures	2007	PODS	0.00012154243
2,627	ProTDB: Probabilistic Data in XML	2002	VLDB	8.1909465e-05
2,897	On the minimization of XPath queries	2003	VLDB	7.8835751e-05
3,143	Matching Twigs in Probabilistic XML	2007	VLDB	7.5857903e-05
3,390	On the Complexity of Managing Probabilistic XML Data	2007	PODS	7.3292374e-05
4,277	Maximally Joining Probabilistic Data	2007	PODS	6.67394e-05
8,951	Incorporating Constraints in Probabilistic XML	2008	PODS	5.2361195e-05

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