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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
- 6403
- Venue
- SIGMOD
- Year
- 2022
- Pagerank
- 4.9908785e-05
- Overall Rank
- 6,609 | 54.07%
- 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 |
| 106 |
Truss Decomposition in Massive Networks |
2012 |
VLDB |
0.00048373761 |
| 327 |
The Ubiquity of Large Graphs and Surprising Challenges of Graph Processing |
2018 |
VLDB |
0.00027312381 |
| 657 |
An Analytical Study of Large SPARQL Query Logs |
2018 |
VLDB |
0.00018581389 |
| 1,906 |
In-Memory Subgraph Matching: An In-depth Study |
2020 |
SIGMOD |
0.00010135267 |
| 2,181 |
Visual Graph Query Construction and Refinement |
2017 |
SIGMOD |
9.360682e-05 |
| 3,208 |
VIIQ: Auto-Suggestion Enabled Visual Interface for Interactive Graph Query Formulation |
2015 |
VLDB |
7.3837748e-05 |
| 3,967 |
SLQ: A User-friendly Graph Querying System |
2014 |
SIGMOD |
6.5781961e-05 |
| 5,975 |
Summarizing Static and Dynamic Big Graphs |
2017 |
VLDB |
5.2452824e-05 |
| 6,515 |
Towards Plug-and-Play Visual Graph Query Interfaces: Data-driven Selection of Canned Patterns for Large Networks |
2021 |
VLDB |
5.0270814e-05 |
| 6,872 |
PLAYPEN: Plug-and-Play Visual Graph Query Interfaces for Top-down and Bottom-Up Search on Large Networks |
2022 |
SIGMOD |
4.8963347e-05 |
| 7,094 |
PICASSO: Exploratory Search of Connected Subgraph Substructures in Graph Databases |
2017 |
VLDB |
4.8293255e-05 |
| 7,292 |
Data-driven Visual Graph Query Interface Construction and Maintenance: Challenges and Opportunities |
2016 |
VLDB |
4.7676734e-05 |
| 7,777 |
Graph Querying Meets HCI: State of the Art and Future Directions |
2017 |
SIGMOD |
4.6493104e-05 |
| 8,289 |
AURORA: Data-driven Construction of Visual Graph Query Interfaces for Graph Databases |
2020 |
SIGMOD |
4.5392079e-05 |
| 11,477 |
MIDAS: Towards Efficient and Effective Maintenance of Canned Patterns in Visual Graph Query Interfaces |
2021 |
SIGMOD |
4.1905499e-05 |
| 11,650 |
CATAPULT: Data-driven Selection of Canned Patterns for Efficient Visual Graph Query Formulation |
2019 |
SIGMOD |
4.1905499e-05 |
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