Multidimensional modeling requires specialized design techniques. Though a lot has been
written about how a data warehouse should be designed, there is no consensus on a design …

The growing importance of data analytics is leading to a shift in data management strategy
at many companies, moving away from simple data storage towards adopting Online …

Enterprise multimedia can provide various services for enterprises and staffs, such as
minutes of the meeting, staff training and internal news release. The format of enterprise …

Data aggregation in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is a desirable feature, only
marginally present in commercial systems nowadays, mostly through ad hoc solutions. We …

Abstract Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have been extensively used in various
application domains, ranging from economical, ecological and demographic analysis, to city …

In the past few years, several conceptual approaches have been proposed for the
specification of the main multidimensional (MD) properties of the spatial data warehouses …

Spatial data warehouses (SDWs) allow for spatial analysis together with analytical
multidimensional queries over huge volumes of data. The challenge is to retrieve data …

The integration of data from diverse fields of ecological research is paramount in the
discovery of new ecological patterns and processes. The spatial exploration of an integrated …

In recent years, the increasing number of processor cores and limited increases in main
memory bandwidth have led to the problem of the bandwidth wall, where memory bandwidth …

Data warehouses and OLAP systems help to interactively analyze huge volume of data.
Frequently this data contains spatial information which is useful for decision-making …