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DMDW
2001
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Towards Data Warehouse Quality Metrics
Organizations are adopting datawarehouses to manage information efficiently as "the" main organizational asset. It is essential that we can assure the information qualit...
Coral Calero, Mario Piattini, Carolina Pascual, Ma...
DMDW
2001
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MAC: Conceptual data modeling for OLAP
In this paper we address the issue of conceptual modeling of data used in multidimensional analysis. We view the problem from the end-user point of view and we describe a set of r...
Aris Tsois, Nikos Karayannidis, Timos K. Sellis
DMDW
2001
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An Analysis of Many-to-Many Relationships Between Fact and Dimension Tables in Dimensional Modeling
Star schema, which maintains one-to-many relationships between dimensions and a fact table, is widely accepted as the most viable data representation for dimensional analysis. Rea...
Il-Yeol Song, William Rowen, Carl Medsker, Edward ...
DMDW
2001
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Logical Multidimensional Database Design for Ragged and Unbalanced Aggregation
Research on logical design of OLAP cubes has tended to assume that the rollup hierarchy in a cube dimension takes the form of a balanced tree. However, experience from industry in...
Tapio Niemi, Jyrki Nummenmaa, Peter Thanisch
DMDW
2001
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SISYPHUS: A Chunk-Based Storage Manager for OLAP Cubes
In this paper, we present SISYPHUS, a storage manager for data cubes that provides an efficient physical base for performing OLAP operations. On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) ...
Nikos Karayannidis, Timos K. Sellis
DMDW
2001
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A Data Warehouse Architecture for Meteo Swiss: An Experience Report
In this experience report we consider some issues in the development of a data warehouse for meteorological and climatology data at MeteoSwiss. The paper describes the meteorologi...
Christian Häberli, Dimitris Tombros
DMDW
2001
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Improving Data Cleaning Quality Using a Data Lineage Facility
The problem of data cleaning, which consists of removing inconsistencies and errors from original data sets, is well known in the area of decision support systems and data warehou...
Helena Galhardas, Daniela Florescu, Dennis Shasha,...
DMDW
2001
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On Estimating the Cardinality of Aggregate Views
Accurately estimating the cardinality of aggregate views is crucial for logical and physical design of data warehouses. While the warehouse is under development and data are not a...
Paolo Ciaccia, Matteo Golfarelli, Stefano Rizzi
DMDW
2001
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Understanding Analysis Dimensions in a Multidimensional Object-Oriented Model
OLAP defines a set of data warehousing query tools characterized by providing a multidimensional view of data. Information can be shown at different aggregation levels (often call...
Alberto Abelló, José Samos, Fè...