Neptune: a Hypertext System for CAD Applications

Summary: Neptune introduces a hypertext storage model for CAD, unifying textual, graphical, and design data (layouts, logic, timing, code, docs). It provides version histories, arbitrary cross-links, and interactive traversal tailored to large CAD systems. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2299
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1986
Pagerank: 7.8149418e-05
Overall Rank: 2,959 | 79.42%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Norman Delisle
2. Mayer Schwartz

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
256	GraphLog: a Visual Formalism for Real Life Recursion	1990	PODS	0.00030259041
1,444	Finding Regular Simple Paths in Graph Databases	1989	VLDB	0.00011946075

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank

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