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Data-driven Visual Query Interfaces for Graphs: Past, Present, and (Near) Future
Summary: Survey of data-driven visual graph query interfaces (VQIs) that empower non-programmers, grounded in HCI and cognitive psychology. It covers automatic construction and maintenance of interfaces, cost reduction, improved query formulation, portability, and outlines open problems and future directions.
(summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
- Paper ID
- 6402
- Venue
- SIGMOD
- Year
- 2022
- Pagerank
- 4.9956718e-05
- Overall Rank
- 6,609 | 54.03%
- DOI
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10.1145/3514221.3522562
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank |
Cited Paper |
Year |
Venue |
Pagerank |
| 108 |
Truss Decomposition in Massive Networks |
2012 |
VLDB |
0.00048300163 |
| 331 |
The Ubiquity of Large Graphs and Surprising Challenges of Graph Processing |
2018 |
VLDB |
0.00027214222 |
| 690 |
An Analytical Study of Large SPARQL Query Logs |
2018 |
VLDB |
0.00018099792 |
| 1,924 |
In-Memory Subgraph Matching: An In-depth Study |
2020 |
SIGMOD |
0.00010077055 |
| 2,191 |
Visual Graph Query Construction and Refinement |
2017 |
SIGMOD |
9.325575e-05 |
| 3,202 |
VIIQ: Auto-Suggestion Enabled Visual Interface for Interactive Graph Query Formulation |
2015 |
VLDB |
7.3911717e-05 |
| 3,955 |
SLQ: A User-friendly Graph Querying System |
2014 |
SIGMOD |
6.5910012e-05 |
| 5,410 |
PICASSO: Exploratory Search of Connected Subgraph Substructures in Graph Databases |
2017 |
VLDB |
5.5235453e-05 |
| 5,968 |
Summarizing Static and Dynamic Big Graphs |
2017 |
VLDB |
5.2503253e-05 |
| 6,052 |
AURORA: Data-driven Construction of Visual Graph Query Interfaces for Graph Databases |
2020 |
SIGMOD |
5.2331442e-05 |
| 6,152 |
MIDAS: Towards Efficient and Effective Maintenance of Canned Patterns in Visual Graph Query Interfaces |
2021 |
SIGMOD |
5.183145e-05 |
| 6,961 |
CATAPULT: Data-driven Selection of Canned Patterns for Efficient Visual Graph Query Formulation |
2019 |
SIGMOD |
4.8841486e-05 |
| 7,279 |
Data-driven Visual Graph Query Interface Construction and Maintenance: Challenges and Opportunities |
2016 |
VLDB |
4.779057e-05 |
| 7,775 |
Graph Querying Meets HCI: State of the Art and Future Directions |
2017 |
SIGMOD |
4.653773e-05 |
| 7,883 |
Towards Plug-and-Play Visual Graph Query Interfaces: Data-driven Selection of Canned Patterns for Large Networks |
2021 |
VLDB |
4.6282138e-05 |
| 8,501 |
PLAYPEN: Plug-and-Play Visual Graph Query Interfaces for Top-down and Bottom-Up Search on Large Networks |
2022 |
SIGMOD |
4.4973405e-05 |
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