Multidimensional schemas quality: Assessing and balancing analyzability and simplicity

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2814, Issue , 2003, Pages 140-151

  Cherfi, Samira Si Said ^a   Prat, Nicolas ^b  

^a CEDRIC CNAM   (France)

^b ESSEC BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

Author keywords

Analyzability; Multidimensional schema design; Quality criteria; Quality metrics; Simplicity

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; DATA WAREHOUSES; DECISION MAKING;

ANALYZABILITY; MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCHEMATA; QUALITY CRITERIA; QUALITY METRICS; SIMPLICITY;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0142187716     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-39597-3_14     Document Type: Article

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