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What-if Analysis with Conflicting Goals: Recommending Data Ranges for Exploration

Nguyen Quoc Viet Hung  
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Zheng, Kai
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Weidlich, Matthias
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January 1, 2018
2018 IEEE 34th International Conference on Data Engineering (Icde)
34th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops (ICDEW)

What-if analysis is a data-intensive exploration to inspect how changes in a set of input parameters of a model influence some outcomes. It is motivated by a user trying to understand the sensitivity of a model to a certain parameter in order to reach a set of goals that are defined over the outcomes. To avoid an exploration of all possible combinations of parameter values, efficient what-if analysis calls for a partitioning of parameter values into data ranges and a unified representation of the obtained outcomes per range. Traditional techniques to capture data ranges, such as histograms, are limited to one outcome dimension. Yet, in practice, what-if analysis often involves conflicting goals that are defined over different dimensions of the outcome. Working on each of those goals independently cannot capture the inherent trade-off between them. In this paper, we propose techniques to recommend data ranges for what-if analysis, which capture not only data regularities, but also the trade-off between conflicting goals. Specifically, we formulate a parametric data partitioning problem and propose a method to find an optimal solution for it. Targeting scalability to large datasets, we further provide a heuristic solution to this problem. By theoretical and empirical analyses, we establish performance guarantees in terms of runtime and result quality.

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Type
conference paper
DOI
10.1109/ICDE.2018.00018
Web of Science ID

WOS:000492836500010

Author(s)
Nguyen Quoc Viet Hung  
Zheng, Kai
Weidlich, Matthias
Zheng, Bolong
Yin, Hongzhi
Nguyen Thanh Tam  
Stantic, Bela
Date Issued

2018-01-01

Publisher

IEEE

Publisher place

New York

Published in
2018 IEEE 34th International Conference on Data Engineering (Icde)
ISBN of the book

978-1-5386-5520-7

Series title/Series vol.

IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering

Start page

89

End page

100

Subjects

Computer Science, Information Systems

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Computer Science, Theory & Methods

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Computer Science

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REVIEWED

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Event nameEvent placeEvent date
34th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops (ICDEW)

Paris, FRANCE

Apr 16-19, 2018

Available on Infoscience
November 10, 2019
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/162822
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