Automating Data Warehouse Design Using Ontology
Résumé
Requirement Analysis is a crucial and arduous task
in data warehouse design process. We provide a solution to
support data warehouse design, which combines need driven and
data driven design approaches. Our solution is based on ontology
representation language and work results on ontology alignment.
Our design method occurs in two steps. The first one, which
is interactive and semi-automatic, transforms user requirements
into ontologies, the second step that is fully automatic, aligns
the resulting ontologies from the first step and produces an
ontology associated to the Multidimensional Data model. The
waste management field will be our guideline to illustrate our
approach.