PROMISE: Modeling and Predicting User Behavior for Online Analytical Processing Applications
Carsten Sapia · mediaTUM – the media and publications repository of the Technical University Munich (Technical University Munich) · 2001
Architecture of OLAP ToolsOnline Analytical Processing (OLAP) tools are designed for the interactive analysis of quantitative data that is relevant for decisions.The idea is to provide the analyst with a graphical interface that allows for interactively formulating and manipulating queries against a database 1 From 1997 on, all large database conferences (VLDB, SIGMOD, ICDE) have at least one session on OLAP systems and several sessions on data warehouses.In 1999, the DAWAK conference has been established, focussing exclusively on data warehouse and OLAP related research.The 'Gesellschaft für Informatik' (German Society for Informatics) has dedicated active working groups on the topics of datawarehousing and multidimensional databases since 1996. «If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?» --Albert Einstein «An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions» --Robert A. Humphrey