Star schema has been a typical model for both online transaction processing in traditional databases and online analytical processing in large data warehouses. In the star schema,...
Data warehouses and OLAP systems help to interactively analyze huge volume of data. This data, extracted from transactional databases, frequently contains spatial information whic...
Sandro Bimonte, Anne Tchounikine, Maryvonne Miquel
The demand for data integration is rapidly becoming larger as more and more information sources appear in modern enterprises. In many situations a logical (rather than physical) i...
OLAP systems support data analysis through a multidimensional data model, according to which data facts are viewed as points in a space of application-related dimensions", or...
Carlos A. Hurtado, Alberto O. Mendelzon, Alejandro...
An open challenge is to integrate XML and conceptual modeling in order to satisfy large-scale enterprise needs. Because enterprises typically have many data sources using differe...
David W. Embley, Stephen W. Liddle, Reema Al-Kamha