Towards a Unified Visual Database Access
Summary: Introduces VQL, a unified visual query language with core constructs and a restricted universal quantifier, organized around a windows-based hierarchy. Provides formal semantics, safety, and complexity analysis, showing a minimal primitive set can encode nesting and core operations across relational, nested, and object-oriented models. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. K. Vadaparty (Case Western Reserve University)
- 2. Y. A. Aslandogan (Case Western Reserve University)
- 3. G. Ozsoyoglu (Case Western Reserve University)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{vadaparty_sigmod93,
title = {{Towards a Unified Visual Database Access}},
author = {Vadaparty, K. and Aslandogan, Y. A. and Ozsoyoglu, G.},
series = {{SIGMOD} '93},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/170035.170087},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/170035.170087},
year = {1993}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12,970 | Towards an ODMG-Compliant Visual Object Query Language | 1997 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 10 of 10 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | The Functional Data Model and the Data Language DAPLEX | 1979 | SIGMOD | 0.00061144858 |
| 355 | Object Identity As A Query Language Primitive | 1989 | SIGMOD | 0.00020351749 |
| 403 | Querying Object-Oriented Databases | 1992 | SIGMOD | 0.0001907249 |
| 877 | F-Logic: A Higher-Order Language for Reasoning about Objects, Inheritance, and Scheme | 1989 | SIGMOD | 0.00013464822 |
| 2,248 | Database Programming in Machiavelli - a Polymorphic Language with Static Type Inference | 1989 | SIGMOD | 8.8703718e-05 |
| 2,714 | G-WHIZ*, a Visual Interface for the Functional Model with Recursion | 1985 | VLDB | 8.2118321e-05 |
| 4,072 | Towards a Real Horn Clause Language | 1988 | VLDB | 6.9258731e-05 |
| 4,919 | LLO: An Object-Oriented Deductive Language with Methods and Method Inheritance | 1991 | SIGMOD | 6.4452856e-05 |
| 8,816 | DOODLE: A Visual Language for Object-Oriented Databases | 1992 | SIGMOD | 5.363753e-05 |
| 13,097 | On the power of Rule-Based Languages with Sets | 1991 | PODS | 5.093636e-05 |
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