More and more integration systems use ontologies to solve the problem of semantic heterogeneities between autonomous databases. To automate the integration process, a number of the...
Data Warehouse-(DW) logical design often start with a conceptual schema and then generates relational structures. Applying this approach implies to cope with two main aspects: (i) ...
This paper challenges the currently popular "Data Warehouse is a Special Animal" philosophy and advocates that practitioners adopt a more conservative "Data Warehou...
During data warehouse design, the designer frequently encounters the problem of choosing among different alternatives for the same design construct. The behavior of the chosen desi...
George Papastefanatos, Panos Vassiliadis, Alkis Si...
: A data warehouse is a database focused on decision making. It is built separately from the transactional (OLTP) databases of the enterprise, although it is partly fed from transa...