The Causal-Effect Score in Data Management

Felipe Azúa, Leopoldo Bertossi

Keywords: Causality, Probabilistic Databases, Attribution Scores, Query Answering

TL;DR: We introduce and investigate a generalized causal-effect score for explaining database queries

Abstract:

The Causal Effect (CE) is a numerical measure of causal influence of variables on observed results.
Despite being widely used in many areas, only preliminary attempts have been made to use CE as an
attribution score in data management, to measure the causal strength of tuples for query answering
in databases. In this work, we introduce, generalize and investigate the so-called Causal-Effect
Score in the context of classical and probabilistic databases.

Submission Number: 62