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Tracing Data Errors with View-Conditioned Causality

Summary: View-conditioned causality for identifying causes of unexpected query results across multiple views. Uses adapted causality and responsibility, reduces to SAT, and shows improved accuracy over Boolean influence on real mobile-tracking data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
hfebf954354ebdb1a
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2011
Pagerank
8.4137923e-05
Overall Rank
2,459 | 83.52%
DOI
10.1145/1989323.1989376

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{meliou_sigmod11,
        title = {{Tracing Data Errors with View-Conditioned Causality}},
        author = {Meliou, Alexandra and Gatterbauer, Wolfgang and Nath, Suman and Suciu, Dan},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '11},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1989323.1989376},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1989323.1989376},
        year = {2011}
}

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191 Scorpion: Explaining Away Outliers in Aggregate Queries 2013 VLDB 0.0002578784
672 A Formal Approach to Finding Explanations for Database Queries 2014 SIGMOD 0.00014903109
989 Data Cleaning: Overview and Emerging Challenges 2016 SIGMOD 0.00012638176
2,233 Explaining Query Answers with Explanation-Ready Databases 2016 VLDB 8.7844607e-05
2,328 Causal Relational Learning 2020 SIGMOD 8.6206869e-05
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2,847 Data Provenance at Internet Scale: Architecture, Experiences, and the Road Ahead 2017 CIDR 7.9235089e-05
2,962 Reverse Data Management 2011 VLDB 7.7949147e-05
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5,008 XInsight: eXplainable Data Analysis Through The Lens of Causality 2023 SIGMOD 6.3049458e-05
5,022 Descriptive and Prescriptive Data Cleaning 2014 SIGMOD 6.2989483e-05
6,327 Qualitative Data Cleaning 2016 VLDB 5.7945802e-05
8,540 Causality-Guided Adaptive Interventional Debugging 2020 SIGMOD 5.3042872e-05
8,894 Stale View Cleaning: Getting Fresh Answers from Stale Materialized Views 2015 VLDB 5.2415191e-05
8,910 DPXPlain: Privately Explaining Aggregate Query Answers 2023 VLDB 5.2369069e-05
11,422 Finding Convincing Views to Endorse a Claim 2025 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
11,571 Counterfactual Explanation at Will, with Zero Privacy Leakage 2024 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
11,700 PD-Explain: A Unified Python-native Framework for Query Explanations Over DataFrames 2024 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
12,590 Provenance-based Dictionary Refinement in Information Extraction 2013 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
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17 Provenance Semirings 2007 PODS 0.00059660827
24 Data Integration: A Theoretical Perspective 2002 PODS 0.00055201845
389 Why Not? 2009 SIGMOD 0.00019254758
524 Schema Mappings, Data Exchange, and Metadata Management 2005 PODS 0.00016888746
581 The Complexity of Causality and Responsibility for Query Answers and non-Answers 2011 VLDB 0.00016042765
593 On Propagation of Deletions and Annotations Through Views 2002 PODS 0.00015833398
624 On the Provenance of Non-Answers to Queries over Extracted Data 2008 VLDB 0.00015438077
790 How to ConQueR Why-Not Questions 2010 SIGMOD 0.00013929166
795 Model Management 2.0: Manipulating Richer Mappings 2007 SIGMOD 0.00013895182
1,079 Curated Databases 2008 PODS 0.00012117197
2,079 Explaining Missing Answers to SPJUA Queries 2010 VLDB 9.0602682e-05
2,371 Artemis: A System for Analyzing Missing Answers 2009 VLDB 8.5457987e-05
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