An Automatic Schema-Instance Approach for Merging Multidimensional Data Warehouses
Using data warehouses to analyse multidimensional data is a significant task in company decision-making.The data warehouse merging process is composed of two steps: matching multidimensional components and then merging them. Current approaches do not take all the particularities of multidimensional data warehouses into account, e.g., only merging schemata, but not instances; or not exploiting hierarchies nor fact tables. Thus, in