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: 9898
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2008
Pagerank: 9.0607273e-05
Overall Rank: 2,160 | 85.19%
DOI: 10.14778/1453856.1453943

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Magesh Jayapandian (University of Michigan)
2. H. V. Jagadish (University of Michigan)

BibTeX Citation

@article{jayapandian_vldb08,
        title = {{Automated Creation of a Forms-based Database Query Interface}},
        author = {Jayapandian, Magesh and Jagadish, H. V.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '08},
        volume = {1},
        number = {1},
        pages = {695--706},
        doi = {10.14778/1453856.1453943},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1453856.1453943},
        year = {2008}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 12 of 12 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,532	Summarizing Relational Databases	2009	VLDB	0.00010472227
2,631	FastQRE: Fast Query Reverse Engineering	2018	SIGMOD	8.3231158e-05
4,046	Expressive Query Construction through Direct Manipulation of Nested Relational Results	2016	SIGMOD	6.9392871e-05
4,904	Mining Precision Interfaces From Query Logs	2019	SIGMOD	6.4503063e-05
5,609	Combining Keyword Search and Forms for Ad Hoc Querying of Databases	2009	SIGMOD	6.1514e-05
5,621	Precision Interfaces for Different Modalities	2018	SIGMOD	6.1472303e-05
5,919	PI2: End-to-end Interactive Visualization Interface Generation from Queries	2022	SIGMOD	6.0426677e-05
5,976	Interactive Browsing and Navigation in Relational Databases	2016	VLDB	6.0219844e-05
6,201	Generating Preview Tables for Entity Graphs	2016	SIGMOD	5.9455064e-05
7,635	Qunits: queried units for database search	2009	CIDR	5.5769911e-05
8,277	Seaform: Search-As-You-Type in Forms	2010	VLDB	5.4574671e-05
8,936	Toward Scalable Keyword Search over Relational Data	2010	VLDB	5.3483178e-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
1,702	Schema Summarization	2006	VLDB	9.9697258e-05
3,492	QURSED: Querying and Reporting Semistructured Data	2002	SIGMOD	7.3652707e-05

Semantically Similar Papers

#	Overall Rank	Paper	Year	Venue
1	1,030	Data-Driven Understanding and Refinement of Schema Mappings	2001	SIGMOD
2	12,385	Keyword Search on Form Results	2011	VLDB
3	13,161	Management of Complex Objects as Dynamic Forms	1988	VLDB
4	4,196	Automatic Example Queries for Ad Hoc Databases	2011	SIGMOD
5	2,087	Guided Interaction: Rethinking the Query-Result Paradigm	2011	VLDB
6	6,904	Light-weight Domain-based Form Assistant: Querying Web Databases On the Fly	2005	VLDB
7	11,499	Towards Auto-Generated Data Systems	2023	VLDB
8	1,305	Assisted Querying using Instant-Response Interfaces	2007	SIGMOD
9	9,328	Forms Approach to Requirements Specification for Database Design	1983	SIGMOD
10	5,609	Combining Keyword Search and Forms for Ad Hoc Querying of Databases	2009	SIGMOD