Title
INDIANA: An interactive system for assisting database exploration.
Abstract
We propose INDIANA, a system conceived to support a novel paradigm of database exploration. INDIANA assists the users who are interested in gaining insights about a database though an interactive and incremental process, like a conversation that does not happen in natural language. During this process, the system iteratively provides the user with some features of the data that might be “interesting” from the statistical viewpoint, receiving some feedbacks that are later used by the system to refine the features provided to the user in the next step. A key ability of INDIANA is to assist “data enthusiastic” users (i.e., inexperienced or casual users) in the exploration of transactional databases in an interactive way. For this purpose, we develop a number of novel, statistically-grounded algorithms to support the interactive exploration of the database. We report an in-depth experimental evaluation to show that the proposed system guarantees a very good trade-off between accuracy and scalability, and a user study that supports the claim that the system is effective in real-world database-exploration tasks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1016/j.is.2019.01.003
Information Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
Database exploration,Features,Statistics,Sampling
Information system,Conversation,Computer science,Natural language,Software,Casual,Transactional leadership,Database,Scalability
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
83
0306-4379
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Antonio Giuzio100.34
Giansalvatore Mecca21840396.38
Elisa Quintarelli352138.17
Manuel Roveri427230.19
Donatello Santoro515815.25
Letizia Tanca62330590.73