This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the 5th International
Workshop on Business Intelligence for the Real-Time Enterprise BIRTE 2011 held in Seattle WA
USA in September 2011 in conjunction with VLDB 2011 the International Conference on Very
Large Data Bases. The series of BIRTE workshops aims to provide a forum for researchers to
discuss and advance the foundational science and engineering required to enable real-time
business intelligence as well as novel applications and solutions based on these foundational
techniques.The volume contains 6 research papers which have been carefully reviewed and
selected from 12 submissions plus the 3 keynotes presented at the workshop. The topics cover
all stages of the business intelligence cycle including capturing of real-time data handling
of temporal or uncertain data performance issues event management and the optimization of
complex ETL workflows. The volume contains 6 research papers which have been carefully
reviewed and selected from 12 submissions plus the 3 keynotes presented at the workshop. The
topics cover all stages of the business intelligence cycle including capturing of real-time
data handling of temporal or uncertain data performance issues event management and the
optimization of complex ETL workflows.
