Terminological Reasoning and Conceptual Modeling for Datawarehouse.
David Rudloff · 1996
. This paper analyses some useful enhancements required by datawarehouse systems. This concerns the conceptual modeling representation and visualisation, the query definition and optimization. A general framework is proposed to integrate terminological reasoning and a natural language interface in a flexible knowledge representation system in order to meet datawarehouse needs. INTRODUCTION Nowadays, database access is not exclusively reserved to computer scientists. Many people want to consult directly databases and exploit the data. For these reasons, datawarehouse concerns systems that try to give to nonspecialist end-users a simplified view of complex database. Such systems involve database abstraction, query formulation and result analysis. This notion is partially covered by some other business terms, like Enterprise Information System, Business Intelligence, Corporate Analysis System, Online Analytical Processing etc... Let us consider that Datawarehouse involves all the efforts...