Data Warehousing Design and Advanced Engineering Applications: Methods for Complex Construction

The entire process of designing and using a data warehouse is detailed in this work, encompassing requirement specification, conceptual, logical, and physical design, and tuning and evolution management. The role of ontologies in designing and exploiting data warehouses is also examined. The first section of the book examines conceptual design and ontology-based integration, with chapters on integrating XML heterogeneous information sources into a data warehouse, and a unified XML warehouse reference model. A section on physical design and self-tuning looks at topics including the problem of selecting materialized views to speed up decision support queries, and event-based simulation for analysis of load and availability balancing in chunk-wise parallel data warehouses. The section on evolution and maintenance management looks at construction and maintenance of heterogeneous data warehouses. The final group of chapters, on exploitation of data warehouses, presents material on areas such as ontology query languages for ontology-based databases, an ontology-based database approach for handling preferences, and security in data warehouses. Bellatreche teaches computer science at Poitiers University, France. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)