A foundation for multi-dimensional databases

Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Very Large Databases, VLDB 1997

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages 106-115

  Gyssens, Marc ^a   Lakshmanan, Laks V S ^b  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS;

CONCEPTUAL MODEL; DATA CUBE; MULTI DIMENSIONAL; ON-LINE ANALYTICAL PROCESSING; RELATED WORKS; SEPARATION OF CONCERNS; STRUCTURAL ASPECTS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84994193789     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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