On Provenance Minimization
Summary: Defines the "core provenance"—the component of N[X]-provenance present in every query equivalent to a given query—and proves it is compact and captures the inherent computational structure. Provides algorithms to rewrite queries to realize the core and to compute tuple-level core provenance directly from arbitrary evaluations without rewriting. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Yael Amsterdamer (Tel Aviv University; University of Pennsylvania)
- 2. Daniel Deutch (Ben Gurion University; University of Pennsylvania)
- 3. Tova Milo (Tel Aviv University)
- 4. Val Tannen (University of Pennsylvania)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{amsterdamer_pods11,
address = {New York, NY, USA},
series = {{PODS} '11},
title = {{On Provenance Minimization}},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1989284.1989303},
doi = {10.1145/1989284.1989303},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
author = {Amsterdamer, Yael and Deutch, Daniel and Milo, Tova and Tannen, Val},
year = {2011}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,427 | The Semiring Framework for Database Provenance | 2017 | PODS | 8.4673732e-05 |
| 5,641 | Distributed Provenance Compression | 2017 | SIGMOD | 6.0377578e-05 |
| 8,789 | Minimally Factorizing the Provenance of Self-join Free Conjunctive Queries | 2024 | PODS | 5.263678e-05 |
| 9,827 | ProvCite: Provenance-based Data Citation | 2019 | VLDB | 5.108228e-05 |
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | Provenance Semirings | 2007 | PODS | 0.00059660827 |
| 393 | Data Exchange: Getting to the Core | 2003 | PODS | 0.00019157229 |
| 529 | An Annotation Management System for Relational Databases | 2004 | VLDB | 0.00016834919 |
| 581 | The Complexity of Causality and Responsibility for Query Answers and non-Answers | 2011 | VLDB | 0.00016042765 |
| 1,556 | Update Exchange with Mappings and Provenance | 2007 | VLDB | 0.00010232016 |
| 1,621 | Efficient Provenance Storage | 2008 | SIGMOD | 0.00010039235 |
| 1,667 | On the Decidability of Query Containment under Constraints | 1998 | PODS | 9.922321e-05 |
| 2,333 | Efficient Query Reformulation in Peer Data Management Systems | 2004 | SIGMOD | 8.6088875e-05 |
| 3,373 | Efficient Querying and Maintenance of Network Provenance at Internet-Scale | 2010 | SIGMOD | 7.348575e-05 |
| 3,624 | On Reconciling Data Exchange, Data Integration, and Peer Data Management | 2007 | PODS | 7.1341025e-05 |
| 5,214 | Equivalence of Queries Combining Set and Bag-Set Semantics | 2006 | PODS | 6.2136202e-05 |
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