i3: Intelligent, Interactive Investigation of OLAP data cubes

Summary: I3: Intelligent, Interactive Investigation of OLAP data cubes automates tasks currently done via manual, ad-hoc exploration. DIFF, RELAX, INFORM extend OLAP with an operator toolkit for interactive, automated discovery on real datasets. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3239
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2000
Pagerank: 8.4571036e-05
Overall Rank: 2,610 | 81.85%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Sunita Sarawagi
2. Gayatri Sathe

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 14 of 14 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
942	A Formal Approach to Finding Explanations for Database Queries	2014	SIGMOD	0.00015155714
1,137	User-adaptive exploration of multidimensional data	2000	VLDB	0.00013730532
1,552	Overview of Data Exploration Techniques	2015	SIGMOD	0.00011408814
1,846	Combining User Interaction, Speculative Query Execution and Sampling in the DICE System	2014	VLDB	0.00010335419
2,733	The Case for Data Visualization Management Systems [Vision Paper]	2014	VLDB	8.2078862e-05
3,546	Extracting Top-K Insights from Multi-dimensional Data	2017	SIGMOD	6.9870745e-05
3,878	Data Canopy: Accelerating Exploratory Statistical Analysis	2017	SIGMOD	6.6731435e-05
4,693	Multi-Structural Databases	2005	PODS	5.9955924e-05
5,191	Going Beyond Provenance: Explaining Query Answers with Pattern-based Counterbalances	2019	SIGMOD	5.6378768e-05
6,779	Explaining Inference Queries with Bayesian Optimization	2021	VLDB	4.9280116e-05
8,104	The Cascading Analysts Algorithm	2018	SIGMOD	4.5851358e-05
8,228	Mining Approximate Top-K Subspace Anomalies in Multi-Dimensional Time-Series Data	2007	VLDB	4.5549459e-05
8,996	MetaInsight: Automatic Discovery of Structured Knowledge for Exploratory Data Analysis	2021	SIGMOD	4.4124959e-05
9,850	COMPARE: Accelerating Groupwise Comparison in Relational Databases for Data Analytics	2021	VLDB	4.2721228e-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
767	Explaining differences in multidimensional aggregates	1999	VLDB	0.00016981309

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