Bridging the semantic gap in OLAP models: Platform-independent queries

DOLAP: Proceedings of the ACM International Workshop on Data Warehousing and OLAP

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 89-96

  Pardillo, Jesús ^a   Mazón, Jose Norberto ^a   Trujillo, Juan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Conceptual modelling; Data warehouse; MDA; OLAP

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL LEVELS; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; CONCEPTUAL MODELLING; LOGICAL LEVELS; MDA; MODEL-DRIVEN ARCHITECTURE; OBJECT CONSTRAINT LANGUAGE; OLAP; OLAP QUERIES; OLAP SYSTEM; ON-LINE ANALYTICAL PROCESSING; SEMANTIC GAP; STATIC AND DYNAMIC; THREE-STAGE PROCESS;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; SEMANTICS;

DATA WAREHOUSES;

EID: 70349302994     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1458432.1458448     Document Type: Conference Paper

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