To Not Miss the Forest for the Trees - A Holistic Approach for Explaining Missing Answers over Nested Data
Summary: Proposes a holistic, query-based explanation framework for missing answers over nested data, treating schema-modifying operators as potential causes. A heuristic uses multiple schema alternatives and iterative re-validation to prune non-contributing intermediates, enabling scalable Spark-based explanations that outperform prior work. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Ralf Diestelkämper (University of Stuttgart)
- 2. Seokki Lee (University of Cincinnati)
- 3. Melanie Herschel (National University of Singapore; University of Stuttgart)
- 4. Boris Glavic (Illinois Institute of Technology)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{diestelkamper_sigmod21,
title = {{To Not Miss the Forest for the Trees - A Holistic Approach for Explaining Missing Answers over Nested Data}},
author = {Diestelkämper, Ralf and Lee, Seokki and Herschel, Melanie and Glavic, Boris},
series = {{SIGMOD} '21},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3448016.3457249},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3448016.3457249},
year = {2021}
}
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5,359 | Why Not Yet: Fixing a Top-k Ranking that Is Not Fair to Individuals | 2023 | VLDB | 6.1608586e-05 |
| 7,807 | Erebus: Explaining the Outputs of Data Streaming Queries | 2023 | VLDB | 5.4480616e-05 |
| 10,029 | Debugging Missing Answers for Spark Queries over Nested Data with Breadcrumb | 2021 | VLDB | 5.0910813e-05 |
| 10,813 | Efficient Query Repair for Aggregate Constraints | 2026 | VLDB | 4.9769913e-05 |
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