Graph Exploration: From Users to Large Graphs

Summary: Unified user-driven graph-exploration taxonomy: exploratory analysis, query-result refinement, and focused graph mining. Tutorial-style overview of interactivity, explanations, and partial queries, with applications and challenges. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5336
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 4.2621158e-05
Overall Rank: 9,887 | 31.22%
DOI: 10.1145/3035918.3054778

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Authors

1. Davide Mottin
2. Emmanuel Müller

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
6,011	X2Q: Your Personal Example-based Graph Explorer	2018	VLDB	5.2415551e-05
8,289	Knowledge Graph Exploration Systems: are we lost?	2022	CIDR	4.5435639e-05
10,582	A Flexible Framework for Query-oriented Interactive Community Search	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 14 of 14 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
764	TurboISO: Towards UltraFast and Robust Subgraph Isomorphism Search in Large Graph Databases	2013	SIGMOD	0.00017018712
900	Graph Indexing: Tree + Delta >= Graph	2007	VLDB	0.00015495155
1,552	Overview of Data Exploration Techniques	2015	SIGMOD	0.00011408814
1,958	Exemplar Queries: Give me an Example of What You Need	2014	VLDB	9.9572632e-05
2,551	NeMa: Fast Graph Search with Label Similarity	2013	VLDB	8.5572574e-05
2,938	Graph Homomorphism Revisited for Graph Matching	2010	VLDB	7.8524059e-05
3,197	A Probabilistic Optimization Framework for the Empty-Answer Problem	2013	VLDB	7.3955829e-05
3,873	Efficient Subgraph Similarity Search on Large Probabilistic Graph Databases	2012	VLDB	6.6779082e-05
3,955	SLQ: A User-friendly Graph Querying System	2014	SIGMOD	6.5910012e-05
4,807	Diversified Top-k Graph Pattern Matching	2013	VLDB	5.9092289e-05
5,722	Ego-net Community Mining Applied to Friend Suggestion	2016	VLDB	5.3524548e-05
6,080	Answering Top-k Representative Queries on Graph Databases	2014	SIGMOD	5.2214553e-05
6,210	Summarizing Answer Graphs Induced by Keyword Queries	2013	VLDB	5.1560547e-05
6,809	Adaptive Data Skipping in Main-Memory Systems	2016	SIGMOD	4.9206606e-05

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12,239	Exploratory Keyword Search on Data Graphs	2010	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
5,504	Managing and Mining Large Graphs: Systems and Implementations	2012	SIGMOD	5.4737941e-05
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6,237	New Trends on Exploratory Methods for Data Analytics	2017	VLDB	5.1435341e-05
10,843	Machine Learning for Graph Data Management and Query Processing	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
7,775	Graph Querying Meets HCI: State of the Art and Future Directions	2017	SIGMOD	4.653773e-05
1,552	Overview of Data Exploration Techniques	2015	SIGMOD	0.00011408814
8,344	Exploring the Data Wilderness through Examples	2019	SIGMOD	4.5428111e-05
8,289	Knowledge Graph Exploration Systems: are we lost?	2022	CIDR	4.5435639e-05
11,874	Graph-based Exploration of Non-graph Datasets	2016	VLDB	4.1945683e-05