Slowly Changing Dimensions: a Pattern Language for Coping with Change in Analytical Information Processing.
Hans Wegener, Robert Martí · 2007
In many larger organizations like internationally operating companies, owners of analytical information systems must frequently cope with change. An important part of this problem is the restructuring of attributes serving as classification categories, so-called dimensions. This pattern language concerns itself with different ways of preparing for and dealing with changes in the real world and their impact on the analysis of derived measures based on historic data in time-series.