A data warehouse is a large electronic repository of information that is generated and updated in a structured manner by an enterprise over time to aid business intelligence and to support decision making. Data stored in a data warehouse is non-volatile and time variant and is organized by subjects in a manner to support decision making (Inmon, Rudin, Buss, & Sousa, 1998). Data warehousing has ...

In the data warehousing approach to the integration of data from multiple information sources, selected information is extracted in advance and stored in a repository. A data warehouse (DW) can therefore be seen as a set of materialized views defined over the sources. When a query is posed, it is evaluated locally, using the materialized views, without accessing the original information sources...

Several techniques exist to select and materialize a proper set of data in a suitable structure that manage the queries submitted to the online analytical processing systems. These techniques are called view management techniques, which consist of three research areas: 1) view selection to materialize, 2) query processing and rewriting using the materialized views, and 3) maintaining materializ...

A data warehouse is an essential component to the decision support system. The traditional data warehouse provides only numeric and character data analysis. But as information technologies progress, complex data such as semi-structured and unstructured data become vastly used. Developing new data warehouse technologies to accommodate the demand of integrating complex data is important. In this ...

Data warehousing encompasses architectures, algorithms, and tools for bringing together selected data from multiple databases or other information sources into a single repository, called a data warehouse suitable for direct querying or analysis. In recent years data warehousing has become a prominent buzzword in the database industry, but attention from the database research community has been...

Data warehouses are complex systems consisting of many components which store highlyaggregated data for decision support. Due to the role of the data warehouses in the daily business work of an enterprise, the requirements for the design and the implementation are dynamic and subjective. Therefore, data warehouse design is a continuous process which has to reflect the changing environment of a ...