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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
8.4334752e-05
Overall Rank
2,458 | 83.49%
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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2,838 Data Provenance at Internet Scale: Architecture, Experiences, and the Road Ahead 2017 CIDR 7.9493532e-05
2,950 Reverse Data Management 2011 VLDB 7.817636e-05
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4,984 XInsight: eXplainable Data Analysis Through The Lens of Causality 2023 SIGMOD 6.325863e-05
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6,384 Qualitative Data Cleaning 2016 VLDB 5.8039496e-05
8,523 Causality-Guided Adaptive Interventional Debugging 2020 SIGMOD 5.3218847e-05
8,876 Stale View Cleaning: Getting Fresh Answers from Stale Materialized Views 2015 VLDB 5.2587627e-05
8,890 DPXPlain: Privately Explaining Aggregate Query Answers 2023 VLDB 5.2542808e-05
11,369 Finding Convincing Views to Endorse a Claim 2025 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
11,521 Counterfactual Explanation at Will, with Zero Privacy Leakage 2024 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
11,653 PD-Explain: A Unified Python-native Framework for Query Explanations Over DataFrames 2024 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
12,547 Provenance-based Dictionary Refinement in Information Extraction 2013 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
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24 Data Integration: A Theoretical Perspective 2002 PODS 0.00055018384
389 Why Not? 2009 SIGMOD 0.00019313101
517 Schema Mappings, Data Exchange, and Metadata Management 2005 PODS 0.0001694094
578 The Complexity of Causality and Responsibility for Query Answers and non-Answers 2011 VLDB 0.00016093679
591 On Propagation of Deletions and Annotations Through Views 2002 PODS 0.00015882967
621 On the Provenance of Non-Answers to Queries over Extracted Data 2008 VLDB 0.0001548582
791 How to ConQueR Why-Not Questions 2010 SIGMOD 0.00013970743
793 Model Management 2.0: Manipulating Richer Mappings 2007 SIGMOD 0.00013935809
1,077 Curated Databases 2008 PODS 0.00012153352
2,069 Explaining Missing Answers to SPJUA Queries 2010 VLDB 9.0884616e-05
2,361 Artemis: A System for Analyzing Missing Answers 2009 VLDB 8.5732984e-05
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