Pasta-3's Graphical Query Language: Direct Manipulation, Cooperative Queries, Full Expressive Power
Summary: Pasta-3 introduces a Graphical Direct Manipulation language with click-drag editing of iconic expressions. Cooperative editing with path completion and edit-then-reevaluate loops, plus recursion, variables, subqueries, and Prolog integration in GrDM. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Michel Kuntz
- 2. Rainer Melchert
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,535 | PESTO: An Integrated Query/Browser for Object Databases | 1996 | VLDB | 0.00011467414 |
| 1,724 | OdeView: The Graphical Interface to Ode | 1990 | SIGMOD | 0.00010750441 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 363 | A Graphical Query Language Supporting Recursion | 1987 | SIGMOD | 0.00025715157 |
| 723 | GUIDE: Graphical User Interface for Database Exploration | 1982 | VLDB | 0.00017542556 |
| 1,946 | ISIS: Interface for a Semantic Information System | 1985 | SIGMOD | 0.00010000783 |
| 4,846 | Ski: A Semantics-Knowledgeable Interface | 1984 | VLDB | 5.8780351e-05 |
| 6,582 | Towards a Spatial Query Language: User Interface Considerations | 1988 | VLDB | 5.0028957e-05 |
| 14,215 | Pasta-3: A Graphical Direct Manipulation Interface for Knowledge Base Management Systems | 1990 | SIGMOD | - |
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| 5,651 | GPC: A Pattern Calculus for Property Graphs | 2023 | PODS | 5.3905536e-05 |
| 461 | Graphs-at-a-time: Query Language and Access Methods for Graph Databases | 2008 | SIGMOD | 0.00022499343 |
| 256 | GraphLog: a Visual Formalism for Real Life Recursion | 1990 | PODS | 0.00030259041 |
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