View selection deals with the selection of appropriate sets of views capable of improving the response times for queries while conforming to space constraints. Materializing all views is infeasible, as the number of possible views is exponential with respect to the number of dimensions and,...

Decision support systems (DSS) constitute one of the most crucial components of almost every corporation's information system. Data warehouse provides the DSS with massive volumes of quality corporate data for analysis. On account of the volume of corporate data, its processing time of on-line...

Data warehouse is an essential component of almost every modern enterprise information system. It stores huge amount of subject-oriented, time-stamped, non-volatile and integrated data. It is highly required of the system to respond to complex online analytical queries posed against its data...

On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) aims at gaining useful information quickly from large amounts of data residing in a data warehouse. To improve the quickness of response to queries, pre-aggregation is a useful strategy. However, it is usually impossible to pre-aggregate along all...