We address the issue of designing effective query languages for OLAP databases. The basis of our investigation is MD, a new data model for multidimensional databases that, unlike ...
In recent work we have presented a formal framework for linguistic annotation based on labeled acyclic digraphs. These `annotation graphs' oer a simple yet powerful method fo...
Abstract. As information systems are increasingly being called upon to play vital roles in organizations, conceptual modelling techniques need to be extended to relate information ...
Data warehouses and On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) provide an analysis framework supporting the decision making process. In many application domains, complex analysis tasks ...
An open challenge is to integrate XML and conceptual modeling in order to satisfy large-scale enterprise needs. Because enterprises typically have many data sources using differe...
David W. Embley, Stephen W. Liddle, Reema Al-Kamha