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Explaining differences in multidimensional aggregates

Summary: An OLAP operator explains aggregate increases/decreases through compact, information-theoretic dimension/value summaries, avoiding manual drill-downs. One-pass dynamic programming with data-size-independent memory enables scalable, interactive ROLAP integration. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
h5d5bdd642b7c90d0
Venue
VLDB
Year
1999
Pagerank
0.00014642224
Overall Rank
700 | 95.31%
DOI
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BibTeX Citation

@article{sarawagi_vldb99,
        title = {{Explaining differences in multidimensional aggregates}},
        author = {Sarawagi, Sunita},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '99},
        pages = {42--53},
        year = {1999}
}

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8,347 The Cascading Analysts Algorithm 2018 SIGMOD 5.3338424e-05
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12,029 Exploring Ratings in Subjective Databases 2021 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
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468 Discovery of Multiple-Level Association Rules from Large Databases 1995 VLDB 0.00017705907
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