Pasta-3: A Graphical Direct Manipulation Interface for Knowledge Base Management Systems

Summary: Pasta-3: DM interface for D/KBMSs; end users design, browse, and query via icons and drag. Synchronized semantic browsing; subgraph-path discovery; a DM query language with recursion and quantification over a Prolog KB2/EDUCE backend. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2568
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1990
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 14,415 | 1.10%
DOI: 10.1145/93597.98751

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Authors

1. Michel Kuntz (European Computer-Industry Research Center)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{kuntz_sigmod90,
        title = {{Pasta-3: A Graphical Direct Manipulation Interface for Knowledge Base Management Systems}},
        author = {Kuntz, Michel},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '90},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/93597.98751},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/93597.98751},
        year = {1990}
}

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,973	Pasta-3's Graphical Query Language: Direct Manipulation, Cooperative Queries, Full Expressive Power	1989	VLDB	6.0235019e-05

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