Temporal Queries in OLAP

Summary: Proposes a temporal multidimensional model and a query language to preserve and query dimension history in OLAP. Formalizes syntax/semantics, demonstrates via examples, and discusses translation to SQL:99, TSQL2, and implementation issues. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h48ab851bcac2aeec
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2000
Pagerank: 6.0145373e-05
Overall Rank: 5,731 | 61.47%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Alberto O. Mendelzon (University of Toronto)
2. Alejandro A. Vaisman (University of Buenos Aires)

BibTeX Citation

@article{mendelzon_vldb00,
        title = {{Temporal Queries in OLAP}},
        author = {Mendelzon, Alberto O. and Vaisman, Alejandro A.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '00},
        year = {2000}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,850	QC-Trees: An Efficient Summary Structure for Semantic OLAP	2003	SIGMOD	6.9801117e-05
13,162	SIT-IN: a Real-Life Spatio-Temporal Information System	2001	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

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