Data Mapping Diagrams for Data Warehouse Design with UML
In Data Warehouse (DW) scenarios, ETL (Extraction, Transformation, Loading) processes are responsible for the extraction of data from heterogeneous...
Entity Resolution: Overview and Challenges
Entity resolution is a problem that arises in many information integration scenarios: We have two or more sources containing...
Informational Scenarios for Data Warehouse Requirements Elicitation
We propose a requirements elicitation process for a data warehouse (DW) that identifies its information contents. These contents support...
Towards a Statistically Semantic Web
The envisioned Semantic Web aims to provide richly annotated and explicitly structured Web pages in XML, RDF, or description...
The Application and Prospect of Business Intelligence in Metallurgical Manufacturing Enterprises in China
This paper introduces the application of Business Intelligence (BI) technologies in metallurgical manufacturing enterprises in China. It sets forth...
Conceptual Modelling – What and Why in Current Practice
Much research has been devoted over the years to investigating and advancing the techniques and tools used by analysts...
Entity-Relationship Modeling Re-revisited
Since its introduction, the Entity-Relationship (ER) model has been the vehicle of choice in communicating the structure of a...
Modeling Functional Data Sources as Relations
In this paper we present a model of functional access to data that, we argue, is suitable for modeling...
Roles as Entity Types: A Conceptual Modelling Pattern
Roles are meant to capture dynamic and temporal aspects of real-world objects. The role concept has been used with...
Modeling Default Induction with Conceptual Structures
Our goal is to model the way people induce knowledge from rare and sparse data. This paper describes a...
