An agent-based framework for materialized view maintenance in collaborative electronic commerce environments

For extended enterprises, value-chain integration means that enterprise business systems can no longer be confined to internal processes, applications, and data repositories. What this means for data warehouses, is that their interoperation is a prerequisite in collaborative environments such as Business-to-Business exchanges where they are physically scattered along the value chain. Adopting system and information quality as success variables, we argue that existing works fell short of addressing complex issues that relate to their refreshment and extent far beyond view maintenance solutions within single warehouses. Describing a solution for warehouse refreshment in a federation of data warehouses, we define a special kind of materialized view and provide a prototype for materializing this kind of views. Keywords Decision Support Systems, Multi-agent Systems, Data Warehouse Refreshment, Materialized View Maintenance. 

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: ECIS
• Authors: Aristides Triantafillakis, Panagiotis Kanellis, Drakoulis Martakos
• Keywords: Data Warehouse, ECIS 2003, Information Technology, View Maintenance, Warehouse Refreshment