W3QS: A Query System for the World-Wide Web

Summary: SQL-like web query language to mine heterogeneous WWW data and exploit node structure for flexible queries. Leverages Unix tools (grep, awk) and browsers for processing, intuitive presentation, and continuous result maintenance. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h9ecdc18f6442b915
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1995
Pagerank: 0.00015944965
Overall Rank: 586 | 96.07%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. David Konopnicki (Technion)
2. Oded Shmueli (Technion)

BibTeX Citation

@article{konopnicki_vldb95,
        title = {{W3QS: A Query System for the World-Wide Web}},
        author = {Konopnicki, David and Shmueli, Oded},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '95},
        pages = {54},
        year = {1995}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 17 of 17 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
50	DataGuides: Enabling Query Formulation and Optimization in Semistructured Databases	1997	VLDB	0.00043130126
162	Integration of Heterogeneous Databases Without Common Domains Using Queries Based on Textual Similarity	1998	SIGMOD	0.00027536748
356	Regular Path Queries with Constraints	1997	PODS	0.00020103855
1,130	WSQ/DSQ: A Practical Approach for Combined Querying of Databases and the Web*	2000	SIGMOD	0.00011902078
1,315	DTD Inference for Views of XML Data	2000	PODS	0.00011058412
1,401	DTL’s DataSpot: Database Exploration Using Plain Language	1998	VLDB	0.00010774626
1,879	Incremental Maintenance for Materialized Views over Semistructured Data	1998	VLDB	9.4424426e-05
1,915	Formal Models of Web Queries	1997	PODS	9.3840448e-05
2,147	Query Decomposition and View Maintenance for Query Languages for Unstructured Data	1996	VLDB	8.9576491e-05
2,643	The SphereSearch Engine for Unified Ranked Retrieval of Heterogeneous XML and Web Documents	2005	VLDB	8.177657e-05
2,763	Cut and Paste	1997	PODS	8.044061e-05
2,785	To Weave the Web	1997	VLDB	8.0177508e-05
4,266	A Web Odyssey: from Codd to XML	2001	PODS	6.6972871e-05
4,592	Queries with Incomplete Answers over Semistructured Data	1999	PODS	6.513694e-05
9,213	A Layered Architecture for Querying Dynamic Web Content	1999	SIGMOD	5.2059251e-05
13,174	Toward Learning Based Web Query Processing	2000	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
13,221	DTL's DataSpot: Database Exploration as Easy as Browsing the Web...	1998	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,021	Querying and Updating the File	1993	VLDB	0.0001243944

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