Data-driven Visual Graph Query Interface Construction and Maintenance: Challenges and Opportunities

Summary: Proposes dynamically constructing and maintaining visual graph-query interfaces from the underlying data, rather than statically designing them. This data-driven approach lowers interface costs, improves query formulation, and enhances portability across graph, JSON, and XML databases. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: hdf380a05877fda0f
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2016
Pagerank: 5.406024e-05
Overall Rank: 8,011 | 46.16%
DOI: 10.14778/2994509.2994517
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Authors

1. Sourav S Bhowmick (Nanyang Technological University)
2. Byron Choi (Hong Kong Baptist University)
3. Curtis Dyreson (Utah State University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{bhowmick_vldb16,
        title = {{Data-driven Visual Graph Query Interface Construction and Maintenance: Challenges and Opportunities}},
        author = {Bhowmick, Sourav S and Choi, Byron and Dyreson, Curtis},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '16},
        volume = {9},
        number = {12},
        pages = {984--987},
        doi = {10.14778/2994509.2994517},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2994509.2994517},
        year = {2016}
}

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Showing 8 of 8 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,746	Precision Interfaces for Different Modalities	2018	SIGMOD	6.0064582e-05
6,568	Data-driven Visual Query Interfaces for Graphs: Past, Present, and (Near) Future	2022	SIGMOD	5.7443457e-05
6,981	Towards Plug-and-Play Visual Graph Query Interfaces: Data-driven Selection of Canned Patterns for Large Networks	2021	VLDB	5.6266987e-05
7,622	PLAYPEN: Plug-and-Play Visual Graph Query Interfaces for Top-down and Bottom-Up Search on Large Networks	2022	SIGMOD	5.4807684e-05
7,990	Graph Querying Meets HCI: State of the Art and Future Directions	2017	SIGMOD	5.4100383e-05
8,706	AURORA: Data-driven Construction of Visual Graph Query Interfaces for Graph Databases	2020	SIGMOD	5.2880532e-05
11,984	MIDAS: Towards Efficient and Effective Maintenance of Canned Patterns in Visual Graph Query Interfaces	2021	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05
12,147	CATAPULT: Data-driven Selection of Canned Patterns for Efficient Visual Graph Query Formulation	2019	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 13 of 13 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3	Pregel: A System for Large-Scale Graph Processing	2010	SIGMOD	0.0012087459
22	Distributed GraphLab: A Framework for Machine Learning and Data Mining in the Cloud	2012	VLDB	0.00055938421
289	Graphs-at-a-time: Query Language and Access Methods for Graph Databases	2008	SIGMOD	0.00021960834
443	Efficient Subgraph Matching on Billion Node Graphs	2012	VLDB	0.00018190518
498	Efficient Aggregation for Graph Summarization	2008	SIGMOD	0.00017310055
2,854	JSON Data Management – Supporting Schema-less Development in RDBMS	2014	SIGMOD	7.93571e-05
3,118	VIIQ: Auto-Suggestion Enabled Visual Interface for Interactive Graph Query Formulation	2015	VLDB	7.6301919e-05
3,369	Connected Substructure Similarity Search	2010	SIGMOD	7.3663492e-05
3,499	iGraph: A Framework for Comparisons of Disk-Based Graph Indexing Techniques	2010	VLDB	7.2515431e-05
3,682	SLQ: A User-friendly Graph Querying System	2014	SIGMOD	7.101204e-05
5,955	Distributed Graph Simulation: Impossibility and Possibility	2014	VLDB	5.9331392e-05
6,069	GBLENDER: Visual Subgraph Query Formulation Meets Query Processing	2011	SIGMOD	5.8945047e-05
6,767	Updating Graph Indices with a One-Pass Algorithm	2015	SIGMOD	5.6860336e-05

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