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: 5398
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 5.1729561e-05
Overall Rank: 10,037 | 31.14%
DOI: 10.1145/3035918.3054778

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Davide Mottin (Hasso Plattner Institute)
2. Emmanuel Müller (Hasso Plattner Institute)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{mottin_sigmod17,
        title = {{Graph Exploration: From Users to Large Graphs}},
        author = {Mottin, Davide and Müller, Emmanuel},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '17},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3035918.3054778},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3035918.3054778},
        year = {2017}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
6,303	X2Q: Your Personal Example-based Graph Explorer	2018	VLDB	5.9213518e-05
8,520	Knowledge Graph Exploration Systems: are we lost?	2022	CIDR	5.4119882e-05
9,691	A Flexible Framework for Query-oriented Interactive Community Search	2025	VLDB	5.2351259e-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
485	TurboISO: Towards UltraFast and Robust Subgraph Isomorphism Search in Large Graph Databases	2013	SIGMOD	0.00017717377
727	Graph Indexing: Tree + Delta >= Graph	2007	VLDB	0.00014565738
1,198	Overview of Data Exploration Techniques	2015	SIGMOD	0.00011706307
1,897	Exemplar Queries: Give me an Example of What You Need	2014	VLDB	9.5243334e-05
2,285	NeMa: Fast Graph Search with Label Similarity	2013	VLDB	8.8052998e-05
2,718	Graph Homomorphism Revisited for Graph Matching	2010	VLDB	8.209788e-05
3,548	Efficient Subgraph Similarity Search on Large Probabilistic Graph Databases	2012	VLDB	7.3214417e-05
3,604	SLQ: A User-friendly Graph Querying System	2014	SIGMOD	7.2666079e-05
3,908	Diversified Top-k Graph Pattern Matching	2013	VLDB	7.0262215e-05
4,076	A Probabilistic Optimization Framework for the Empty-Answer Problem	2013	VLDB	6.9221203e-05
5,468	Ego-net Community Mining Applied to Friend Suggestion	2016	VLDB	6.2073549e-05
5,849	Summarizing Answer Graphs Induced by Keyword Queries	2013	VLDB	6.0666529e-05
5,965	Answering Top-k Representative Queries on Graph Databases	2014	SIGMOD	6.0256454e-05
6,653	Adaptive Data Skipping in Main-Memory Systems	2016	SIGMOD	5.8138531e-05

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1	12,434	Exploratory Keyword Search on Data Graphs	2010	SIGMOD
2	5,833	Managing and Mining Large Graphs: Systems and Implementations	2012	SIGMOD
3	7,887	Graph Data Management Systems for New Application Domains	2011	VLDB
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5	11,067	Machine Learning for Graph Data Management and Query Processing	2025	VLDB
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7	1,198	Overview of Data Exploration Techniques	2015	SIGMOD
8	8,358	Exploring the Data Wilderness through Examples	2019	SIGMOD
9	8,520	Knowledge Graph Exploration Systems: are we lost?	2022	CIDR
10	12,075	Graph-based Exploration of Non-graph Datasets	2016	VLDB