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Explaining differences in multidimensional aggregates

Summary: Proposes a single OLAP operator that yields summarized reasons for changes in aggregated multidimensional data, replacing manual drill-downs. Uses an information-theoretic, one-pass dynamic-programming approach with low memory, enabling interactive explanations in OLAP (DB2/UDB prototype). (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
8585
Venue
VLDB
Year
1999
Pagerank
0.00016981309
Overall Rank
767 | 94.67%
DOI
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227 Discovery of Multiple-Level Association Rules from Large Databases 1995 VLDB 0.00032284058
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