2014 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Extending Drill-Down through Semantic Reasoning on Indicator Formulas
Authors : Claudia Diamantini, Domenico Potena, Emanuele Storti
Published in: Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Performance indicators are calculated by composition of more basic pieces of information, and/or aggregated along a number of different dimensions. The multidimensional model is not able to take into account the compound nature of an indicator. In this work, we propose a semantic multidimensional model in which indicators are formally described together with the mathematical formulas needed for their computation. By exploiting the formal representation of formulas an extended drill-down operator is defined, which is capable to expand an indicator into its components, enabling a novel mode of data exploration. Effectiveness and efficiency are briefly discussed on a prototype introduced as a proof-of concept.