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QBI: Query By Icons

Summary: QBI provides a pure iconic query interface for large distributed databases—no diagrams, only icon manipulation. Intensional browsing and metquery tools auto‑generate path expressions as a single icon, enabling complete queries without schema knowledge or data access, domain independent. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
2850
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1995
Pagerank
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14,073 | 2.10%
DOI
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