AstroShelf: Understanding the Universe Through Scalable Navigation of a Galaxy of Annotations
Summary: AstroShelf integrates database, streaming, workflows, and visualization to enable scalable exploration across sky surveys and annotations with a Google Sky–like interface. Real-time Live Annotations deliver targeted events to researchers via a web-service API for programmatic use. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Panayiotis Neophytou (University of Pittsburgh)
- 2. Roxana Gheorghiu (University of Pittsburgh)
- 3. Rebecca Hachey (University of Pittsburgh)
- 4. Timothy Luciani (University of Pittsburgh)
- 5. Di Bao (University of Pittsburgh)
- 6. Alexandros Labrinidis (University of Pittsburgh)
- 7. G. Elisabeta Marai (University of Pittsburgh)
- 8. Panos K. Chrysanthis (University of Pittsburgh)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{neophytou_sigmod12,
title = {{AstroShelf: Understanding the Universe Through Scalable Navigation of a Galaxy of Annotations}},
author = {Neophytou, Panayiotis and Gheorghiu, Roxana and Hachey, Rebecca and Luciani, Timothy and Bao, Di and Labrinidis, Alexandros and Marai, G. Elisabeta and Chrysanthis, Panos K.},
series = {{SIGMOD} '12},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/2213836.2213940},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2213836.2213940},
year = {2012}
}
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,198 | Overview of Data Exploration Techniques | 2015 | SIGMOD | 0.00011706307 |
| 2,677 | Explore-by-Example: An Automatic Query Steering Framework for Interactive Data Exploration | 2014 | SIGMOD | 8.2682753e-05 |
| 8,804 | PAQO: A Preference-Aware Query Optimizer for PostgreSQL | 2013 | VLDB | 5.3683187e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5,904 | Online Visualization of Geospatial Stream Data using the WorldWide Telescope | 2011 | VLDB | 6.0463178e-05 |
| 6,225 | CONFLuEnCE: CONtinuous workFLow ExeCution Engine | 2011 | SIGMOD | 5.9425753e-05 |
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