The University of Delaware provides nearly all of its information on the World Wide Web; in fact, much of it can be found only on the Web. With this focus, it is critical that all...
In 2002, Harvard University's Division of Continuing Education (DCE) expanded its computer lab facility. This expansion allowed DCE to change its previous policy of restricti...
Motivated by the need for more flexible OLAP systems, this paper presents work on logical integration of external data in OLAP databases, carried out in cooperation between the D...
The normalization of a data cube is the process of choosing an ordering for the attribute values, and the chosen ordering will affect the physical storage of the cube’s data. For...
Metadata management is an essential factor in data warehousing. In data warehousing environments, data is transformed and integrated into a single database from multiple autonomou...
Multidimensional aggregation queries constitute the single most important class of queries for data warehousing applications and decision support systems. The bottleneck in the ev...
The data cube operator exemplifies two of the most important aspects of OLAP queries: aggregation and dimension hierarchies. In earlier work we presented Dwarf, a highly compress...