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Data-driven Visual Query Interfaces for Graphs: Past, Present, and (Near) Future
Summary: Survey of data-driven visual graph query interfaces (VQIs) that empower non-programmers, grounded in HCI and cognitive psychology. It covers automatic construction and maintenance of interfaces, cost reduction, improved query formulation, portability, and outlines open problems and future directions.
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Paper ID
h3cfd750cc3feac72
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2022
Pagerank
5.7470663e-05
Overall Rank
6,566 | 55.86%
DOI
10.1145/3514221.3522562
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BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{bhowmick_sigmod22,
title = {{Data-driven Visual Query Interfaces for Graphs: Past, Present, and (Near) Future}},
author = {Bhowmick, Sourav S and Choi, Byron},
series = {{SIGMOD} '22},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3514221.3522562},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3514221.3522562},
year = {2022}
}
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VIIQ: Auto-Suggestion Enabled Visual Interface for Interactive Graph Query Formulation 2015
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7.6338057e-05
3,679
SLQ: A User-friendly Graph Querying System 2014
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7.1045672e-05
5,660
Summarizing Static and Dynamic Big Graphs 2017
VLDB
6.0478621e-05
6,978
Towards Plug-and-Play Visual Graph Query Interfaces: Data-driven Selection of Canned Patterns for Large Networks 2021
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5.6293636e-05
7,450
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5.5238477e-05
7,616
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5.4833642e-05
7,985
Graph Querying Meets HCI: State of the Art and Future Directions 2017
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5.4126006e-05
8,006
Data-driven Visual Graph Query Interface Construction and Maintenance: Challenges and Opportunities 2016
VLDB
5.4085844e-05
8,698
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5.2905577e-05
11,978
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4.9793485e-05
12,141
CATAPULT: Data-driven Selection of Canned Patterns for Efficient Visual Graph Query Formulation 2019
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4.9793485e-05
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