A set of aggregation functions for spatial measures

  • Authors:
  • Joel da Silva;Valéria Cesário Times;Ana Carolina Salgado;Clenúbio Souza;Robson do Nascimento Fidalgo;Anjolina Grisi de Oliveira

  • Affiliations:
  • Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife - PE, Brazil;Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife - PE, Brazil;Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife - PE, Brazil;Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife - PE, Brazil;Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife - PE, Brazil;Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife - PE, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the ACM 11th international workshop on Data warehousing and OLAP
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

A number of studies have been developed in recent years aimed at integrating pertinent concepts and technologies for analytical multidimensional (OLAP) and geographic (GIS) processing environments. This type of integrated environment has been identified as SOLAP (Spatial OLAP). However, due to the fact that these two technologies were conceived with different purposes in mind, the interaction of the two environments is not an easy task and even with so much research being developed, there remain unresolved issues that merit exploration. One such issue refers to aggregation functions for measures. These functions are currently used in the definition of multidimensional and geographic data cubes. The aim of this paper is to present a set of aggregation functions for geographic measures. We also show these functions in practice, by taking into account their use with a SOLAP architecture prototype. This SOLAP prototype is based on a model for Geographic Data Warehouse (GDW), a data cube model and a geographic multidimensional query language.