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# Design and Management
of Data Warehouses 2002

### Proceedings of the 4th Intl. Workshop DMDW'2002, Toronto, Canada, May 27, 2002.

Edited by

Laks V.S. Lakshmanan, University of British Columbia, Canada

DMDW'2002 was held in conjunction with the 14th Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE*02).

### Preface

### Keynote address

Extending SQL for Decision Support Applications
Haixun Wang and Carlo Zaniolo, pp. 1-2

### Research papers

Getting Users Involved in the Development of Data Warehouse Applications
Gilmar M. Freitas, Alberto H.F. Laender, and Maria L.M. Campos, pp. 3-12

X-META: A methodology for data warehouse design with metadata management
Liane Carneiro and Angelo Brayner, pp. 13-22

Automating data warehouse conceptual schema design and evaluation
Cassandra Phipps and Karen C. Davis, pp. 23-32

Index selection for data warehousing
Matteo Golfarelli, Stefano Rizzi, and Ettore Saltarelli, pp. 33-42

Extending data warehouses by semiconsistent views
Lutz Schlesinger and Wolfgang Lehner, pp. 43-51

Modeling ETL activities as graphs
Panos Vassiliadis, Alkis Simitsis, and Spiros Skiadopoulos, pp. 52-61

Cost-based optimization of aggregation star queries on hierarchically clustered data warehouses
Aris Tsois, Nikos Karayannidis, Timos Sellis, and Dimitri Theodoratos, pp. 62-71

Revising data cubes with exceptions: a rule-based perspective
Mauricio M. Espil, Alejandro A. Vaisman, and Leonardo Terribile, pp. 72-81

### Experience papers

Data warehouse design for ease of data transformation
Ido Millet, Diane H. Parente, and John L. Fizel, pp. 82-89

Focusing the customer: a critical approach towards design and use of data warehousing in corporate CRM
Martin Schwartz, Oliver Schliebs, and Boris Wyssusek, pp. 90-96

Proactive data quality management for data warehouse systems
Markus Helfert and Clemens Herrmann, pp. 97-106

submitted to CEUR-WS by Laks V.S. Lakshmanan, May 21, 2002