Applying Object-Oriented Conceptual Modeling Techniques to the Design of Multidimensional Databases and OLAP Applications

  • Authors:
  • Juan Trujillo;Manuel Palomar;Jaime Gómez

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • WAIM '00 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Web-Age Information Management
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Few works have been presented in the area of Object-Oriented (OO) Conceptual Modeling to specify the design of multidimensional databases (MDB) and OLAP applications. In this context, this paper describes an OO conceptual modeling approach (based on a subset of UML) to address the peculiarities associated to this kind of systems. The structure of the system is specified by means of a class diagram that considers the semantics of multidimensional (MD) data models with a minimal use of constraints and extensions on UML. Furthermore, user's requirements are specified as object collections (cube classes) in the class diagram. To do so, new specific graphical elements are defined to represent these classes. The result is an OO conceptual modeling approach that considers the semantics of MD data models as well as user's requirements in the same model in a natural way.