A UML profile for multidimensional modeling in data warehouses

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 59, Issue 3 SPEC. ISS., 2006, Pages 725-769

  Luján Mora, Sergio ^a   Trujillo, Juan ^a   Song, Il Yeol ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^b Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

Data warehouses; Multidimensional modeling; UML; UML extension; UML profile

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES;

UML EXTENSION; UML PROFILE; UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE (UML);

DATA WAREHOUSES;

EID: 33749260690     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.datak.2005.11.004     Document Type: Article

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