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: 2361
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1986
Pagerank: 7.1594837e-05
Overall Rank: 3,739 | 74.35%
DOI: 10.1145/16894.16867

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Norman Delisle (Tektronix)
2. Mayer Schwartz (Tektronix)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{delisle_sigmod86,
        title = {{Neptune: a Hypertext System for CAD Applications}},
        author = {Delisle, Norman and Schwartz, Mayer},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '86},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/16894.16867},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/16894.16867},
        year = {1986}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
300	GraphLog: a Visual Formalism for Real Life Recursion	1990	PODS	0.00022046803
1,658	Finding Regular Simple Paths in Graph Databases	1989	VLDB	0.00010092304

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank

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