Query Steering for Interactive Data Exploration

Summary: Proposes DBNav, an automated "database navigator" that steers Interactive Data Exploration by recommending data trajectories and highlighting salient features, sensitive to user goals and common navigation patterns. Sketches a framework and components (task-awareness, interest modeling, trajectory planning) for integrating guided, iterative discovery into DBMSs. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 220
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2013
Pagerank: 0.00010545273
Overall Rank: 1,506 | 89.67%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Ugur Cetintemel (Brown University)
2. Mitch Cherniack (Brandeis University)
3. Justin DeBrabant (Brown University)
4. Yanlei Diao (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
5. Kyriaki Dimitriadou (Brandeis University)
6. Alex Kalinin (Brown University)
7. Olga Papaemmanouil (Brandeis University)
8. Stan Zdonik (Brown University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{cetintemel_cidr13,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '13},
        title = {{Query Steering for Interactive Data Exploration}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Cetintemel, Ugur and Cherniack, Mitch and DeBrabant, Justin and Diao, Yanlei and Dimitriadou, Kyriaki and Kalinin, Alex and Papaemmanouil, Olga and Zdonik, Stan},
        year = {2013}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 14 of 14 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,192	Query From Examples: An Iterative, Data-Driven Approach to Query Construction	2015	VLDB	0.00011740132
1,198	Overview of Data Exploration Techniques	2015	SIGMOD	0.00011706307
1,585	Dynamic Prefetching of Data Tiles for Interactive Visualization	2016	SIGMOD	0.00010288399
2,136	Combining User Interaction, Speculative Query Execution and Sampling in the DICE System	2014	VLDB	9.1126926e-05
2,677	Explore-by-Example: An Automatic Query Steering Framework for Interactive Data Exploration	2014	SIGMOD	8.2682753e-05
3,618	The Myria Big Data Management and Analytics System and Cloud Service	2017	CIDR	7.2523695e-05
5,976	Interactive Browsing and Navigation in Relational Databases	2016	VLDB	6.0219844e-05
6,892	SnapToQuery: Providing Interactive Feedback during Exploratory Query Specification	2015	VLDB	5.7447134e-05
7,510	Continuous Prefetch for Interactive Data Applications	2020	VLDB	5.6029996e-05
8,342	DBChEx: Interactive Exploration of Data and Schema Change	2019	CIDR	5.4484451e-05
8,511	NOAH: Interactive Spreadsheet Exploration with Dynamic Hierarchical Overviews	2021	VLDB	5.4119882e-05
8,594	Exploratory Training: When Annotators Learn About Data	2023	SIGMOD	5.4053095e-05
9,977	Towards Autonomous, Hands-Free Data Exploration	2020	CIDR	5.1845938e-05
11,989	Alpine: Efficient In situ Data Exploration in the Presence of Updates	2017	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
9	Online Aggregation	1997	SIGMOD	0.00077458002
1,149	A Case for A Collaborative Query Management System	2009	CIDR	0.0001194728
1,475	VisTrails: Visualization meets Data Management	2006	SIGMOD	0.00010662942

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