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: 7360
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2025
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 10,793 | 25.96%
DOI: 10.1145/3725410

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Authors

1. Kasidis Chanthatrojwong (Nanyang Technological University)
2. Sourav S Bhowmick (Nanyang Technological University)
3. Byron Choi (Hong Kong Baptist University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{chanthatrojwong_sigmod25,
        title = {{LICS: Towards Theory-Informed Effective Visual Abstraction of Property Graph Schemas}},
        author = {Chanthatrojwong, Kasidis and Bhowmick, Sourav S and Choi, Byron},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '25},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3725410},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3725410},
        year = {2025}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10,729	PASCAL: A Theory-Informed Visual Interface for Property Graph Schema Visualization	2025	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 10 of 10 cited papers.

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
1,661	PG-Schema: Schemas for Property Graphs	2023	SIGMOD	0.00010079134
2,861	PG-Keys: Keys for Property Graphs	2021	SIGMOD	8.0212883e-05
4,721	QueryVis: Logic-based Diagrams help Users Understand Complicated SQL Queries Faster	2020	SIGMOD	6.5444379e-05
5,560	Exploring Schema Repositories with Schemr	2009	SIGMOD	6.1741042e-05
7,041	DiscoPG: Property Graph Schema Discovery and Exploration	2022	VLDB	5.7194994e-05
8,342	DBChEx: Interactive Exploration of Data and Schema Change	2019	CIDR	5.4484451e-05
8,407	On The Reasonable Effectiveness of Relational Diagrams: Explaining Relational Query Patterns and the Pattern Expressiveness of Relational Languages	2024	SIGMOD	5.4312823e-05
11,398	Theories and Principles Matter: Towards Visually Appealing and Effective Abstraction of Property Graph Queries	2023	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

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