Automated Creation of a Forms-based Database Query Interface

Summary: Automated creation of a forms-based query interface from schema and content, without workload input or DBA help. Generates a compact form set that can express about 60-90% of user queries, outperforming manual design within explicit complexity bounds. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9707
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2008
Pagerank: 9.5608989e-05
Overall Rank: 2,091 | 85.46%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Magesh Jayapandian
2. H. V. Jagadish

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 12 of 12 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,510	Summarizing Relational Databases	2009	VLDB	0.00011606901
2,982	FastQRE: Fast Query Reverse Engineering	2018	SIGMOD	7.7801984e-05
4,365	Expressive Query Construction through Direct Manipulation of Nested Relational Results	2016	SIGMOD	6.2542811e-05
4,635	Mining Precision Interfaces From Query Logs	2019	SIGMOD	6.033398e-05
4,877	Precision Interfaces for Different Modalities	2018	SIGMOD	5.8593569e-05
5,419	Combining Keyword Search and Forms for Ad Hoc Querying of Databases	2009	SIGMOD	5.5176475e-05
5,560	PI2: End-to-end Interactive Visualization Interface Generation from Queries	2022	SIGMOD	5.4336252e-05
5,961	Generating Preview Tables for Entity Graphs	2016	SIGMOD	5.2549663e-05
6,054	Interactive Browsing and Navigation in Relational Databases	2016	VLDB	5.2325754e-05
7,615	Qunits: queried units for database search	2009	CIDR	4.6946145e-05
7,959	Seaform: Search-As-You-Type in Forms	2010	VLDB	4.613363e-05
8,766	Toward Scalable Keyword Search over Relational Data	2010	VLDB	4.456315e-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
1,271	Schema Summarization	2006	VLDB	0.00012923966
1,936	QURSED: Querying and Reporting Semistructured Data	2002	SIGMOD	0.00010030476

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