FORWARD: Data-Centric UIs using Declarative Templates that Efficiently Wrap Third-Party JavaScript Components

Summary: FORWARD provides declarative templates that wrap third-party JavaScript components, decoupling UI from imperative glue. Leverages incremental view maintenance, updatable views, wrappers, and cost-based optimization to automate data-driven visualizations. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11030
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2014
Pagerank: 5.4562544e-05
Overall Rank: 8,307 | 43.01%
DOI: 10.14778/2733004.2733052

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Yupeng Fu (University of California San Diego)
2. Kian Win Ong (University of California San Diego)
3. Yannis Papakonstantinou (University of California San Diego)
4. Erick Zamora (University of California San Diego)

BibTeX Citation

@article{fu_vldb14,
        title = {{FORWARD: Data-Centric UIs using Declarative Templates that Efficiently Wrap Third-Party JavaScript Components}},
        author = {Fu, Yupeng and Ong, Kian Win and Papakonstantinou, Yannis and Zamora, Erick},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '14},
        volume = {7},
        number = {13},
        pages = {1649--1660},
        doi = {10.14778/2733004.2733052},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2733004.2733052},
        year = {2014}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,618	The Myria Big Data Management and Analytics System and Cloud Service	2017	CIDR	7.2523695e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
171	Optimizing Queries across Diverse Data Sources	1997	VLDB	0.00027363924
8,219	Ajax-based Report Pages as Incrementally Rendered Views	2010	SIGMOD	5.4642154e-05

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