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)
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Authors
- 1. Jiebing Ma (Nanyang Technological University)
- 2. Sourav S Bhowmick (Nanyang Technological University)
- 3. Byron Choi (Hong Kong Baptist University)
- 4. Lester Tay (Nanyang Technological University)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{ma_sigmod23,
title = {{Theories and Principles Matter: Towards Visually Appealing and Effective Abstraction of Property Graph Queries}},
author = {Ma, Jiebing and Bhowmick, Sourav S and Choi, Byron and Tay, Lester},
series = {{SIGMOD} '23},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3589277},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3589277},
year = {2023}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 10,729 | PASCAL: A Theory-Informed Visual Interface for Property Graph Schema Visualization | 2025 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 10,793 | LICS: Towards Theory-Informed Effective Visual Abstraction of Property Graph Schemas | 2025 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 264 | The Ubiquity of Large Graphs and Surprising Challenges of Graph Processing | 2018 | VLDB | 0.00022980015 |
| 547 | Cypher: An Evolving Query Language for Property Graphs | 2018 | SIGMOD | 0.00016731552 |
| 2,429 | Visual Graph Query Construction and Refinement | 2017 | SIGMOD | 8.5886167e-05 |
| 3,056 | VIIQ: Auto-Suggestion Enabled Visual Interface for Interactive Graph Query Formulation | 2015 | VLDB | 7.8075329e-05 |
| 3,604 | SLQ: A User-friendly Graph Querying System | 2014 | SIGMOD | 7.2666079e-05 |
| 4,721 | QueryVis: Logic-based Diagrams help Users Understand Complicated SQL Queries Faster | 2020 | SIGMOD | 6.5444379e-05 |
| 6,866 | Towards Plug-and-Play Visual Graph Query Interfaces: Data-driven Selection of Canned Patterns for Large Networks | 2021 | VLDB | 5.7507099e-05 |
| 7,472 | AutoG: A Visual Query Autocompletion Framework for Graph Databases | 2016 | VLDB | 5.6093965e-05 |
| 8,529 | AURORA: Data-driven Construction of Visual Graph Query Interfaces for Graph Databases | 2020 | SIGMOD | 5.4119882e-05 |
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