From Causes for Database Queries to Repairs and Model-Based Diagnosis and Back

DOI10.4230/LIPICS.ICDT.2015.342MaRDI QIDQ5738944zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Babak Salimi, Leopoldo Bertossi

Publication date 13 June 2017

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.4311

zbMATH Keywords

causalityrepairsdiagnosisconsistent query answeringintegrity constraints

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Knowledge representation (68T30) Hypergraphs (05C65) Database theory (68P15)

Abstract: In this work we establish and investigate connections between causality for query answers in databases, database repairs wrt. denial constraints, and consistency-based diagnosis. The first two are relatively new problems in databases, and the third one is an established subject in knowledge representation. We show how to obtain database repairs from causes and the other way around. Causality problems are formulated as diagnosis problems, and the diagnoses provide causes and their responsibilities. The vast body of research on database repairs can be applied to the newer problem of determining actual causes for query answers and their responsibilities. These connections, which are interesting per se, allow us, after a transition -inspired by consistency-based diagnosis- to computational problems on hitting sets and vertex covers in hypergraphs, to obtain several new algorithmic and complexity results for causality in databases.

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