Explore-by-Example: An Automatic Query Steering Framework for Interactive Data Exploration

Summary: Explore-by-Example introduces AIDE, an automatic IDE for exploration that steers users toward regions via sample feedback to predict queries. It delivers accurate conjunctive-query predictions with minimal user effort and fast iterations, cutting exploration time vs manual search. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h3400a49e5af211d3
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2014
Pagerank: 8.172373e-05
Overall Rank: 2,648 | 82.21%
DOI: 10.1145/2588555.2610523

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Authors

1. Kyriaki Dimitriadou (Brandeis University)
2. Olga Papaemmanouil (Brandeis University)
3. Yanlei Diao (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{dimitriadou_sigmod14,
        title = {{Explore-by-Example: An Automatic Query Steering Framework for Interactive Data Exploration}},
        author = {Dimitriadou, Kyriaki and Papaemmanouil, Olga and Diao, Yanlei},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '14},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2588555.2610523},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2588555.2610523},
        year = {2014}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 19 of 19 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,211	Query From Examples: An Iterative, Data-Driven Approach to Query Construction	2015	VLDB	0.00011522028
1,216	Overview of Data Exploration Techniques	2015	SIGMOD	0.00011487268
3,189	Extracting Top-K Insights from Multi-dimensional Data	2017	SIGMOD	7.5499689e-05
3,985	Data Canopy: Accelerating Exploratory Statistical Analysis	2017	SIGMOD	6.8708857e-05
4,509	Optimization for Active Learning-based Interactive Database Exploration	2019	VLDB	6.5684897e-05
5,033	Mining Precision Interfaces From Query Logs	2019	SIGMOD	6.3025938e-05
5,159	Facilitating SQL Query Composition and Analysis	2020	SIGMOD	6.2464819e-05
6,185	Evaluating Interactive Data Systems: Workloads, Metrics, and Guidelines	2018	SIGMOD	5.8561596e-05
6,281	Just-In-Time Data Virtualization: Lightweight Data Management with ViDa	2015	CIDR	5.8236382e-05
6,333	New Trends on Exploratory Methods for Data Analytics	2017	VLDB	5.8095741e-05
8,516	Exploring the Data Wilderness through Examples	2019	SIGMOD	5.3239705e-05
8,764	Exploratory Training: When Annotators Learn About Data	2023	SIGMOD	5.2815275e-05
9,711	Database Gyms	2023	CIDR	5.1352441e-05
9,787	Optimizing Dataflow Systems for Scalable Interactive Visualization	2024	SIGMOD	5.1276108e-05
10,021	The Data Interaction Game	2018	SIGMOD	5.0935279e-05
10,130	An Adaptive Benchmark for Modeling User Exploration of Large Datasets	2025	SIGMOD	5.0727027e-05
10,853	I-Rex: An Interactive Debugger for SQL	2026	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
12,086	Interactively Discovering and Ranking Desired Tuples without Writing SQL Queries	2020	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05
12,439	AIDE: An Automatic User Navigation System for Interactive Data Exploration	2015	VLDB	4.9769913e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,164	A Case for A Collaborative Query Management System	2009	CIDR	0.0001174008
1,246	Blink and It's Done: Interactive Queries on Very Large Data	2012	VLDB	0.000113499
1,538	Query Steering for Interactive Data Exploration	2013	CIDR	0.00010314313
1,608	SciBORQ: Scientific data management with Bounds On Runtime and Quality	2011	CIDR	0.00010085907
1,643	Relaxing Join and Selection Queries	2006	VLDB	0.00010001728
1,864	The Researcher's Guide to the Data Deluge: Querying a Scientific Database in Just a Few Seconds	2011	VLDB	9.4802846e-05
2,685	Learning and Verifying Quantified Boolean Queries by Example	2013	PODS	8.1334309e-05
4,372	Meet Charles, big data query advisor	2013	CIDR	6.6284134e-05
7,180	AstroShelf: Understanding the Universe Through Scalable Navigation of a Galaxy of Annotations	2012	SIGMOD	5.5907397e-05

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