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User Support System for Designing Decisional Database

Authors:
Fatma Abdelhédi
Gilles Zurfluh

Keywords: Multidimensional model; design process; decisional Data-base; decision-makers’ requirements; data-source

Abstract:
The design of a multidimensional schema is usually performed by a specialist (computer scientist). According to data-driven, requirement-driven or hybrid-driven approaches, he determines the facts and axis of analysis. Such an approach assumes that the decision maker expresses, more or less formally, analysis needs and communicate them to the computer scientist. We propose multidimensional schema designing by the decision maker himself following a hybrid-driven approach. Through a process of assistance successively viewing intermediate schemas from sources, the decision maker gradually built his multidimensional schema. As what determined the measures studied, the analysis dimensions and hierarchies within dimensions. A software tool named SelfStar based on this principle has been developed and validated with decision makers.

Pages: 377 to 382

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: February 24, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4138

ISBN: 978-1-61208-250-9

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from February 24, 2013 to March 1, 2013