Towards a Unified Visual Database Access
Summary: Introduces VQL, a unified visual query language with core constructs and a restricted universal quantifier, organized around a windows-based hierarchy. Provides formal semantics, safety, and complexity analysis, showing a minimal primitive set can encode nesting and core operations across relational, nested, and object-oriented models. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. K. Vadaparty (Case Western Reserve University)
- 2. Y. A. Aslandogan (Case Western Reserve University)
- 3. G. Ozsoyoglu (Case Western Reserve University)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{vadaparty_sigmod93,
title = {{Towards a Unified Visual Database Access}},
author = {Vadaparty, K. and Aslandogan, Y. A. and Ozsoyoglu, G.},
series = {{SIGMOD} '93},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/170035.170087},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/170035.170087},
year = {1993}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13,260 | Towards an ODMG-Compliant Visual Object Query Language | 1997 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-05 |
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | The Functional Data Model and the Data Language DAPLEX | 1979 | SIGMOD | 0.00059996338 |
| 366 | Object Identity As A Query Language Primitive | 1989 | SIGMOD | 0.00019923978 |
| 413 | Querying Object-Oriented Databases | 1992 | SIGMOD | 0.00018681401 |
| 904 | F-Logic: A Higher-Order Language for Reasoning about Objects, Inheritance, and Scheme | 1989 | SIGMOD | 0.00013171457 |
| 2,302 | Database Programming in Machiavelli - a Polymorphic Language with Static Type Inference | 1989 | SIGMOD | 8.6714301e-05 |
| 2,756 | G-WHIZ*, a Visual Interface for the Functional Model with Recursion | 1985 | VLDB | 8.0530555e-05 |
| 4,158 | Towards a Real Horn Clause Language | 1988 | VLDB | 6.7735939e-05 |
| 5,040 | LLO: An Object-Oriented Deductive Language with Methods and Method Inheritance | 1991 | SIGMOD | 6.3006733e-05 |
| 8,981 | DOODLE: A Visual Language for Object-Oriented Databases | 1992 | SIGMOD | 5.2434048e-05 |
| 13,387 | On the power of Rule-Based Languages with Sets | 1991 | PODS | 4.9793485e-05 |
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