GUIDE: Graphical User Interface for Database Exploration

Summary: GUIDE replaces query-language interaction with a graphical schema of entities and relationships, where traversal paths specify queries. Incremental “local queries,” intermediate results, linking, zooming, and selective schema visibility support piecemeal exploration of complex databases. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 7726
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1982
Pagerank: 0.00010849986
Overall Rank: 1,412 | 90.32%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Harry K.T. Wong (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; University of California Berkeley)
2. Ivy Kuo (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; University of California Berkeley)

BibTeX Citation

@article{wong_vldb82,
        title = {{GUIDE: Graphical User Interface for Database Exploration}},
        author = {Wong, Harry K.T. and Kuo, Ivy},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '82},
        pages = {22},
        year = {1982}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 12 of 12 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
249	Statistical Databases: Characteristics, Problems, and Some Solutions	1982	VLDB	0.00023275528
1,356	Metadata Management for Large Statistical Databases	1982	VLDB	0.00011050127
2,380	OdeView: The Graphical Interface to Ode	1990	SIGMOD	8.6609083e-05
2,399	Performance Evaluation of the Statistical Aggregation by Categorization in the SM3 System	1984	SIGMOD	8.6307399e-05
3,289	An Object-Oriented Approach to Multimedia Databases	1986	SIGMOD	7.5556715e-05
5,147	Ski: A Semantics-Knowledgeable Interface	1984	VLDB	6.3467506e-05
5,973	Pasta-3's Graphical Query Language: Direct Manipulation, Cooperative Queries, Full Expressive Power	1989	VLDB	6.0235019e-05
6,051	The Integrated Data Model: A Database Perspective	1983	VLDB	5.9942339e-05
6,063	A Graph-Oriented Object Model for Database End-User Interfaces	1990	SIGMOD	5.9899728e-05
6,347	The Multipurpose Presentation System	1983	VLDB	5.9055116e-05
13,012	OPOSSUM: Desk-Top Schema Management through Customizable Visualization	1995	VLDB	5.093636e-05
13,238	A Personal Data Manager	1984	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,275	An Entity-based Database User Interface	1980	SIGMOD	0.00011372804
2,105	Modelling Summary Data	1981	SIGMOD	9.1577906e-05

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