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Database Repairs and Consistent Query Answering: Origins and Further Developments

Summary: Survey tracing origins and early developments of database repairs and consistent query answering, emphasizing foundational motivations, repair semantics, and representative examples. Spotlights recent, fruitful links to database causality and lesser‑known follow-up research directions. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
he4a40e7b697f0002
Venue
PODS
Year
2019
Pagerank
8.2221507e-05
Overall Rank
2,614 | 82.44%
DOI
10.1145/3294052.3322190

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{bertossi_pods19,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '19},
        title = {{Database Repairs and Consistent Query Answering: Origins and Further Developments}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3294052.3322190},
        doi = {10.1145/3294052.3322190},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Bertossi, Leopoldo},
        year = {2019}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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3,942 GoodCore: Data-effective and Data-efficient Machine Learning through Coreset Selection over Incomplete Data 2023 SIGMOD 6.9105312e-05
5,967 A Dichotomy in the Complexity of Consistent Query Answering for Two Atom Queries With Self-Join 2024 PODS 5.9297752e-05
7,476 Fast Detection of Denial Constraint Violations 2022 VLDB 5.5150385e-05
7,711 Consistent Query Answering for Primary Keys on Path Queries 2021 PODS 5.4711392e-05
8,068 Evaluating Top-k Queries with Inconsistency Degrees 2020 VLDB 5.392976e-05
8,286 The Computation of Optimal Subset Repairs 2020 VLDB 5.361078e-05
8,871 Counting Problems over Incomplete Databases 2020 PODS 5.2602301e-05
9,314 First-Order Rewritability in Consistent Query Answering with Respect to Multiple Keys 2020 PODS 5.1952088e-05
11,475 Consistent Query Answering for Primary Keys on Rooted Tree Queries 2024 PODS 4.9769913e-05
11,500 Computing Range Consistent Answers to Aggregation Queries via Rewriting 2024 PODS 4.9769913e-05
11,705 LinCQA: Faster Consistent Query Answering with Linear Time Guarantees 2023 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
11,839 A Dichotomy in Consistent Query Answering for Primary Keys and Unary Foreign Keys 2022 PODS 4.9769913e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 16 of 16 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
24 Data Integration: A Theoretical Perspective 2002 PODS 0.00055018384
33 Consistent Query Answers in Inconsistent Databases 1999 PODS 0.00049326063
104 HoloClean: Holistic Data Repairs with Probabilistic Inference 2017 VLDB 0.00033676943
188 A Cost-Based Model and Effective Heuristic for Repairing Constraints by Value Modification 2005 SIGMOD 0.00025861123
578 The Complexity of Causality and Responsibility for Query Answers and non-Answers 2011 VLDB 0.00016093679
671 A Formal Approach to Finding Explanations for Database Queries 2014 SIGMOD 0.00014948069
716 Guided Data Repair 2011 VLDB 0.00014546968
767 The LLUNATIC Data-Cleaning Framework 2013 VLDB 0.00014108234
897 On the Decidability and Complexity of Query Answering over Inconsistent and Incomplete Databases 2003 PODS 0.00013198452
1,362 Computing Optimal Repairs for Functional Dependencies 2018 PODS 0.00010912749
1,737 The Data Complexity of Consistent Query Answering for Self-Join-Free Conjunctive Queries Under Primary Key Constraints 2015 PODS 9.7499517e-05
2,763 Dichotomies in the Complexity of Preferred Repairs 2015 PODS 8.0404242e-05
3,426 Modeling and Querying Possible Repairs in Duplicate Detection 2009 VLDB 7.3053186e-05
5,743 An Operational Approach to Consistent Query Answering 2018 PODS 6.0079668e-05
5,781 Consistent Query Answers in Inconsistent Probabilistic Databases 2010 SIGMOD 5.9947648e-05
8,202 Counting and Enumerating (Preferred) Database Repairs 2017 PODS 5.3774362e-05
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