Theories and Principles Matter: Towards Visually Appealing and Effective Abstraction of Property Graph Queries

Summary: Proposes a theory-informed visual abstraction for property graphs: labeled composite graphs (LCG) built with VEDA. Introduces SIERRA, a Cypher-based visual query interface, showing in a study that it outperforms LAG-based tools in usability and aesthetics. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 6635
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2023
Pagerank: 4.1945683e-05
Overall Rank: 11,196 | 22.12%
DOI: 10.1145/3589277

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10,448	PASCAL: A Theory-Informed Visual Interface for Property Graph Schema Visualization	2025	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
10,520	LICS: Towards Theory-Informed Effective Visual Abstraction of Property Graph Schemas	2025	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
331	The Ubiquity of Large Graphs and Surprising Challenges of Graph Processing	2018	VLDB	0.00027214222
789	Cypher: An Evolving Query Language for Property Graphs	2018	SIGMOD	0.00016634256
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
5,452	QueryVis: Logic-based Diagrams help Users Understand Complicated SQL Queries Faster	2020	SIGMOD	5.4999397e-05
6,052	AURORA: Data-driven Construction of Visual Graph Query Interfaces for Graph Databases	2020	SIGMOD	5.2331442e-05
7,285	AutoG: A Visual Query Autocompletion Framework for Graph Databases	2016	VLDB	4.7762476e-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

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