LICS: Towards Theory-Informed Effective Visual Abstraction of Property Graph Schemas

Summary: LICS: theory-informed visual abstraction for property graph schemas (iconized composite schema) to replace cluttered LSGs; grounded in HCI and psychology, via the PASCAL interface. Map-Paint driven; user study shows LICS outperforms LSG in usability, query-formation efficiency, and schema comprehension. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 7298
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2025
Pagerank: 4.1945683e-05
Overall Rank: 10,520 | 26.82%
DOI: 10.1145/3725410

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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

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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
1,785	PG-Schema: Schemas for Property Graphs	2023	SIGMOD	0.00010560236
3,306	PG-Keys: Keys for Property Graphs	2021	SIGMOD	7.2437997e-05
4,024	Exploring Schema Repositories with Schemr	2009	SIGMOD	6.5212056e-05
5,452	QueryVis: Logic-based Diagrams help Users Understand Complicated SQL Queries Faster	2020	SIGMOD	5.4999397e-05
7,274	DiscoPG: Property Graph Schema Discovery and Exploration	2022	VLDB	4.7807315e-05
8,338	DBChEx: Interactive Exploration of Data and Schema Change	2019	CIDR	4.5434254e-05
8,404	On The Reasonable Effectiveness of Relational Diagrams: Explaining Relational Query Patterns and the Pattern Expressiveness of Relational Languages	2024	SIGMOD	4.5224126e-05
11,196	Theories and Principles Matter: Towards Visually Appealing and Effective Abstraction of Property Graph Queries	2023	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

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