BIwTL: A Business Information Warehouse Toolkit and Language for Warehousing Simplification and Automation

Summary: BIwTL offers a declarative GIWL language and runtime that automates IWMS tasks, generating scripts and hiding DBs and indexes. Supports structured and unstructured data, enabling load/maintenance for warehouses with lightweight, flexible performance. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3990
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2007
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 12,642 | 13.27%
DOI: 10.1145/1247480.1247603

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Authors

1. Bin He (IBM)
2. Rui Wang (IBM)
3. Ying Chen (IBM)
4. Ana Lelescu (IBM)
5. James Rhodes (IBM)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{he_sigmod07,
        title = {{BIwTL: A Business Information Warehouse Toolkit and Language for Warehousing Simplification and Automation}},
        author = {He, Bin and Wang, Rui and Chen, Ying and Lelescu, Ana and Rhodes, James},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '07},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1247480.1247603},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1247480.1247603},
        year = {2007}
}

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
11	Implementing Data Cubes Efficiently	1996	SIGMOD	0.00071822821
180	Schema Mapping as Query Discovery	2000	VLDB	0.00026772368
198	Aggregate-Query Processing in Data Warehousing Environments	1995	VLDB	0.00025618616
207	On the Computation of Multidimensional Aggregates	1996	VLDB	0.00025088003
391	View Maintenance in a Warehousing Environment	1995	SIGMOD	0.00019370653
577	Computing Iceberg Queries Efficiently	1998	VLDB	0.00016235949
638	Materialized View Selection in a Multidimensional Database	1997	VLDB	0.000154719
1,030	Data-Driven Understanding and Refinement of Schema Mappings	2001	SIGMOD	0.00012545209
1,091	Incremental Maintenance of Externally Materialized Views	1996	VLDB	0.00012226764
1,434	A Query Language for Multidimensional Arrays: Design, Implementation, and Optimization Techniques	1996	SIGMOD	0.00010800479
1,543	Data Warehouse Configuration	1997	VLDB	0.00010413384
1,743	Algorithms for Materialized View Design in Data Warehousing Environment	1997	VLDB	9.8702732e-05
2,496	Star-Cubing: Computing Iceberg Cubes by Top-Down and Bottom-Up Integration	2003	VLDB	8.5025699e-05
4,166	A Foundation for Multi-Dimensional Databases	1997	VLDB	6.8583043e-05
5,779	Multiple-View Self-Maintenance in Data Warehousing Environments	1997	VLDB	6.0917725e-05

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