Asymptotic conditional probabilities for conjunctive queries

  • Authors:
  • Nilesh Dalvi;Gerome Miklau;Dan Suciu

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Washington;University of Washington;University of Washington

  • Venue:
  • ICDT'05 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Database Theory
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We study the asymptotic probabilities of conjunctive queries on random graphs.We consider a probabilistic model where the expected graph size remains constant independent of the number of vertices. While it has been known that a convergence law holds for conjunctive queries under this model, we focus on the calculation of conditional probabilities. This has direct applications to database problems like query-view security, i.e. evaluating the probability of a sensitive query given the knowledge of a set of published views. We prove that a convergence law holds for conditional probabilities of conjunctive queries and we give a procedure for calculating the conditional probabilities.