TOWARDS AN AUTOMATIC DATA MART DESIGN

Ahlem Nabli, Ahlem Soussi, Jamel Feki, Hanêne Ben Abdallah, Faïez Gargouri

2005

Abstract

The Data Warehouse design involves the definition of structures that enable an efficient access to information. The designer builds a multidimensional structure taking into account the users requirements. In fact, it is a highly complex engineering task that calls for a methodological support. This paper lays the grounds for an automatic, stepwise approach for the generation of data warehouse and data mart schemes. For this, it first proposes a standard format for OLAP requirement acquisition. Secondly, it defines an algorithm that transforms automatically the OLAP requirements into data marts modelled either as star or constellation schemes. Thirdly, it overviews our mapping rules between the data sources and the data marts schemes.

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in Harvard Style

Nabli A., Soussi A., Feki J., Ben Abdallah H. and Gargouri F. (2005). TOWARDS AN AUTOMATIC DATA MART DESIGN . In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-19-8, pages 226-231. DOI: 10.5220/0002520702260231


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis05,
author={Ahlem Nabli and Ahlem Soussi and Jamel Feki and Hanêne Ben Abdallah and Faïez Gargouri},
title={TOWARDS AN AUTOMATIC DATA MART DESIGN},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2005},
pages={226-231},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002520702260231},
isbn={972-8865-19-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - TOWARDS AN AUTOMATIC DATA MART DESIGN
SN - 972-8865-19-8
AU - Nabli A.
AU - Soussi A.
AU - Feki J.
AU - Ben Abdallah H.
AU - Gargouri F.
PY - 2005
SP - 226
EP - 231
DO - 10.5220/0002520702260231