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Warehousing and Knowledge

This document discusses an automatic approach for conceptual design of data warehouses and data marts from OLAP requirements. It proposes a standard format for acquiring OLAP requirements and defines rules for transforming these requirements into multidimensional data mart schemes. It also outlines rules for mapping data sources to these schemes and unifying the schemes into an overall data warehouse schema. The approach aims to generate data warehouse designs in a systematic and automatic manner from input OLAP requirements.

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Warehousing and Knowledge

This document discusses an automatic approach for conceptual design of data warehouses and data marts from OLAP requirements. It proposes a standard format for acquiring OLAP requirements and defines rules for transforming these requirements into multidimensional data mart schemes. It also outlines rules for mapping data sources to these schemes and unifying the schemes into an overall data warehouse schema. The approach aims to generate data warehouse designs in a systematic and automatic manner from input OLAP requirements.

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An Automatic Data Warehouse Conceptual Design Approach

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