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Tiresias: A Demonstration of How-To Queries

Summary: Demonstrates Tiresias, the first how-to query engine for reverse data management, enabling KPI-driven hypothetical updates. User choices map to a declarative query solved by a MIP solver; interactive feedback refines results and updates proposals. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
hbcc6d7c15e66318c
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2012
Pagerank
5.6840567e-05
Overall Rank
6,773 | 54.48%
DOI
10.1145/2213836.2213939

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{meliou_sigmod12,
        title = {{Tiresias: A Demonstration of How-To Queries}},
        author = {Meliou, Alexandra and Song, Yisong and Suciu, Dan},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '12},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2213836.2213939},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2213836.2213939},
        year = {2012}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
4,684 Provenance for Natural Language Queries 2017 VLDB 6.4692258e-05
10,257 PROPOLIS: Provisioned Analysis of Data-Centric Processes 2013 VLDB 5.0490212e-05
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Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
245 MCDB: A Monte Carlo Approach to Managing Uncertain Data 2008 SIGMOD 0.00023251151
1,051 Tiresias: The Database Oracle for How-To Queries 2012 SIGMOD 0.00012274277
2,543 From Complete to Incomplete Information and Back 2007 SIGMOD 8.3143504e-05
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