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: 3301
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2000
Pagerank: 8.7015517e-05
Overall Rank: 2,356 | 83.84%
DOI: 10.1145/342009.336564

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Sunita Sarawagi (Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai)
2. Gayatri Sathe (Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{sarawagi_sigmod00,
        title = {{i3: Intelligent, Interactive Investigation of OLAP data cubes}},
        author = {Sarawagi, Sunita and Sathe, Gayatri},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '00},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/342009.336564},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/342009.336564},
        year = {2000}
}

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Showing 14 of 14 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
663	A Formal Approach to Finding Explanations for Database Queries	2014	SIGMOD	0.00015174751
965	User-adaptive exploration of multidimensional data	2000	VLDB	0.00012933878
1,198	Overview of Data Exploration Techniques	2015	SIGMOD	0.00011706307
2,136	Combining User Interaction, Speculative Query Execution and Sampling in the DICE System	2014	VLDB	9.1126926e-05
3,132	Extracting Top-K Insights from Multi-dimensional Data	2017	SIGMOD	7.7246394e-05
3,930	Data Canopy: Accelerating Exploratory Statistical Analysis	2017	SIGMOD	7.0102082e-05
4,392	Multi-Structural Databases	2005	PODS	6.7288249e-05
4,638	Going Beyond Provenance: Explaining Query Answers with Pattern-based Counterbalances	2019	SIGMOD	6.5919801e-05
5,056	The Case for Data Visualization Management Systems	2014	VLDB	6.3823595e-05
6,884	Explaining Inference Queries with Bayesian Optimization	2021	VLDB	5.7465524e-05
8,153	The Cascading Analysts Algorithm	2018	SIGMOD	5.4769543e-05
8,229	Mining Approximate Top-K Subspace Anomalies in Multi-Dimensional Time-Series Data	2007	VLDB	5.4620216e-05
8,974	MetaInsight: Automatic Discovery of Structured Knowledge for Exploratory Data Analysis	2021	SIGMOD	5.3413784e-05
10,002	COMPARE: Accelerating Groupwise Comparison in Relational Databases for Data Analytics	2021	VLDB	5.1814573e-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
700	Explaining differences in multidimensional aggregates	1999	VLDB	0.00014871032

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