Spatial OLAP (SOLAP) systems are powerful GeoBusiness Intelligence tools for analysing massive volumes of geo-referenced datasets. Therefore, these technologies are receiving considerable attention in the research community and in the database industry as well. Applications of these technologies...

The Agri-Food sector is facing global challenges. The first challenge is feeding a world population that will reach 9.3 billion people in 2050, according to UN projections. The second challenge is the demand from consumers for high-quality products obtained through more sustainable, safe and...

Nowadays, more and more data are available for decisional analysis and decision-making based on different indicators. Although different decision-making technologies have been developed, the authors note the lack of a conceptual framework for the definition and implementation of these...

Designing and building a Data Warehouse (DW), and associated OLAP cubes, are long processes, during which decision-maker requirements play an important role. But decision-makers are not OLAP experts and can find it difficult to deal with the concepts behind DW and OLAP. To support DW design in...

Agricultural energy consumption is an important environmental and social issue. Several diagnosis tools have been proposed to define indicators for analyzing the large-scale energy consumption of agricultural farm activities (year, farm, production activity, etc.). In Bimonte, Boulil, Chanet and...