Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
This book presents the first comparative review of the state-of-the-art and the best current practices of data warehouses. It covers source and data integration, multidimensional aggregation, query optimization, metadata management, quality assessment, and design optimization. A conceptual framework is presented by which the architecture and quality of a data warehouse can be assessed and improved using enriched metadata management combined with advanced techniques from databases, business modeling, and artificial intelligence.
Table of Contents
Data warehouse practice : an overview / Christoph Quix, Matthias Jarke -- Data warehouse research : issues and projects / Yannis Vassiliou ... et al. -- Source integration / Diego Calvanese ... et al. -- Data warehouse refreshment / Mokrane Bouzeghoub ... et al. -- Multidimensional data models and aggregation / Enrico Franconi ... et al. -- Query processing and optimization / Werner Nutt -- Metadata and data warehouse quality / Matthias Jarke ... et al..