Data warehouses and OLAP concepts, architectures, and solutions /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Wrembel, Robert., Koncilia, Christian, 1969-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2007.
• Subjects: Data warehousing.; OLAP technology.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

Data warehouses and online analytical processing (OLAP) are emerging key technologies for enterprise decision support systems. They provide sophisticated technologies from data integration, data collection and retrieval, query optimization, and data analysis to advanced user interfaces. New research...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Conceptual modeling solutions for the data warehouse / Stefano Rizzi
• 2. Handling structural heterogeneity in OLAP / Carlos Hurtaso, Claudio Gutierrez
• 3. Data quality-based requirements elicitation for decision support / Alejandro Vaisman
• 4. Extraction, transformation, and loading processes / Jovanka Adzic, Valter Fiore, Luisella Sisto
• 5. Data warehouse refreshment / Alkis Simitsis, Panos Vassiliadis, Spiros Skiadopoulos, Timos Sellis
• 6. Advanced ad hoc star query processing / Nikos Karayannidis, Aris Tsois, Timos Sellis
• 7. Bitmap indices for data warehouses / Kurt Stockinger, Kesheng Wu
• 8. Indexing in data warhousing / Karen Davis, Ashima Gupta
• 9. Efficient and robust node-partitioned data warhouses / Pedro Furtado
• 10. OLAP with a database cluster / Uwe Rohm
• 11. Toward integrating data warehousing with data mining techniques / Rokia Missaoui, Ganaël Jatteau, Ameur Boujenoui, Sami Naouali
• 12.Temporal semistructured data models and data warehouses / Carlo Combi, Barbara Oliboni
• 13.Spatial Online Analytical Processing (SOLAP) / Yvan Bedard, Sonia Rivest, Marie-Josée Proulx.