Explore-by-Example: An Automatic Query Steering Framework for Interactive Data Exploration

Summary: Explore-by-Example introduces AIDE, an automatic IDE for exploration that steers users toward regions via sample feedback to predict queries. It delivers accurate conjunctive-query predictions with minimal user effort and fast iterations, cutting exploration time vs manual search. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4956
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2014
Pagerank: 8.2682753e-05
Overall Rank: 2,677 | 81.64%
DOI: 10.1145/2588555.2610523

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Authors

1. Kyriaki Dimitriadou (Brandeis University)
2. Olga Papaemmanouil (Brandeis University)
3. Yanlei Diao (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{dimitriadou_sigmod14,
        title = {{Explore-by-Example: An Automatic Query Steering Framework for Interactive Data Exploration}},
        author = {Dimitriadou, Kyriaki and Papaemmanouil, Olga and Diao, Yanlei},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '14},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2588555.2610523},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2588555.2610523},
        year = {2014}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 18 of 18 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,192	Query From Examples: An Iterative, Data-Driven Approach to Query Construction	2015	VLDB	0.00011740132
1,198	Overview of Data Exploration Techniques	2015	SIGMOD	0.00011706307
3,132	Extracting Top-K Insights from Multi-dimensional Data	2017	SIGMOD	7.7246394e-05
3,930	Data Canopy: Accelerating Exploratory Statistical Analysis	2017	SIGMOD	7.0102082e-05
4,420	Optimization for Active Learning-based Interactive Database Exploration	2019	VLDB	6.7132724e-05
4,904	Mining Precision Interfaces From Query Logs	2019	SIGMOD	6.4503063e-05
5,132	Facilitating SQL Query Composition and Analysis	2020	SIGMOD	6.3534526e-05
6,059	Evaluating Interactive Data Systems: Workloads, Metrics, and Guidelines	2018	SIGMOD	5.9915079e-05
6,181	Just-In-Time Data Virtualization: Lightweight Data Management with ViDa	2015	CIDR	5.9494838e-05
6,200	New Trends on Exploratory Methods for Data Analytics	2017	VLDB	5.9457282e-05
8,358	Exploring the Data Wilderness through Examples	2019	SIGMOD	5.4446041e-05
8,594	Exploratory Training: When Annotators Learn About Data	2023	SIGMOD	5.4053095e-05
9,536	Database Gyms	2023	CIDR	5.2529727e-05
9,734	Optimizing Dataflow Systems for Scalable Interactive Visualization	2024	SIGMOD	5.227679e-05
9,832	The Data Interaction Game	2018	SIGMOD	5.2124469e-05
9,941	An Adaptive Benchmark for Modeling User Exploration of Large Datasets	2025	SIGMOD	5.1915905e-05
11,778	Interactively Discovering and Ranking Desired Tuples without Writing SQL Queries	2020	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,140	AIDE: An Automatic User Navigation System for Interactive Data Exploration	2015	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,149	A Case for A Collaborative Query Management System	2009	CIDR	0.0001194728
1,227	Blink and It's Done: Interactive Queries on Very Large Data	2012	VLDB	0.00011582387
1,506	Query Steering for Interactive Data Exploration	2013	CIDR	0.00010545273
1,582	SciBORQ: Scientific data management with Bounds On Runtime and Quality	2011	CIDR	0.00010295367
1,636	Relaxing Join and Selection Queries	2006	VLDB	0.00010156479
1,924	The Researcher's Guide to the Data Deluge: Querying a Scientific Database in Just a Few Seconds	2011	VLDB	9.4775501e-05
2,639	Learning and Verifying Quantified Boolean Queries by Example	2013	PODS	8.3078378e-05
4,295	Meet Charles, big data query advisor	2013	CIDR	6.7780208e-05
7,056	AstroShelf: Understanding the Universe Through Scalable Navigation of a Galaxy of Annotations	2012	SIGMOD	5.7160909e-05

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