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most citedOn the Limitations of Provenance for Queries With Difference

29 citations · 73 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.DB2026

The Complexity of Finding Missing Answer Repairs

Jesse Comer, Val Tannen

We investigate the problem of identifying database repairs for missing tuples in query answers. We show that when the query is part of the input - the combined complexity setting -…

cs.DB2025

A Unifying Algorithm for Hierarchical Queries

Mahmoud Abo Khamis, Jesse Comer, Phokion Kolaitis +2

The class of hierarchical queries is known to define the boundary of the dichotomy between tractability and intractability for the following two extensively studied problems about…

cs.LO2024★ 1 cited

Provenance Analysis and Semiring Semantics for First-Order Logic

Erich Grädel, Val Tannen

A provenance analysis for a query evaluation or a model checking computation extracts information on how its result depends on the atomic facts of the model or database. Traditiona…

cs.DB2024★ 1 cited

Evaluating Datalog over Semirings: A Grounding-based Approach

Hangdong Zhao, Shaleen Deep, Paraschos Koutris +2

Datalog is a powerful yet elegant language that allows expressing recursive computation. Although Datalog evaluation has been extensively studied in the literature, so far, only lo…

cs.LO2023★ 1 cited

Syntax Monads for the Working Formal Metatheorist

Lawrence Dunn, Val Tannen, Steve Zdancewic

Formally verifying the properties of formal systems using a proof assistant requires justifying numerous minor lemmas about capture-avoiding substitution. Despite work on category-…

cs.DB2022

DBSP: Automatic Incremental View Maintenance for Rich Query Languages

Mihai Budiu, Frank McSherry, Leonid Ryzhyk +1

Incremental view maintenance has been for a long time a central problem in database theory. Many solutions have been proposed for restricted classes of database languages, such as…