New book on multidimensional databases

Multidimensional Databases: Problems and Solutions 
Idea Group Publications, USA, 2003 

http://www.idea-group.com/books/details.asp?id=4005 

Maurizio Rafanelli (editor) Istituto di Analisi dei Sistemi ed Informatica 
"Antonio Ruberti", Italy 

Contributing authors: 
  Maurizio Rafanelli, Amr El Abbadi, Divyakant Agrawal, Elena Baralis,
  Andrea Calí, Curtis E. Dyreson, Christian S. Jensen, Domenico Lembo,
  Maurizio Lenzerini, Francesco M. Malvestuto, Alberto O. Mendelzon,
  Marina Moscarini, Stefano Paraboschi, Torben B. Pedersen, Elaheh Pourabbas,
  Mirek Riedewald, Riccardo Rosati, Arie Shoshani, Giuseppe Sindoni,
  Ernest Teniente, Leonardo Tininini, Riccardo Torlone, Alejandro A. Vaisman

443 pages, ISBN: 1-59140-053-8 (hardcover); 1-59140-094-5 (ebook) 

"Multidimensional Databases: Problems and Solutions", strives to be the point 
of reference for the most important issues in the field of multidimensional 
databases. This book provides a brief history of the field and distinguishes 
between what is new in recent research and what is merely a renaming of old 
concepts. The book reviews past papers and discusses current research projects 
in the hope to encourage the search for new solutions to the many problems 
that are still unsolved. In addition "Multidimensional Databases: Problems 
and Solutions" outlines the incredible advances in technology and ever 
increasing demands from users in the most diverse applicative areas such as 
finance, medicine, statistics, business, and many more. Many of the most 
distinguished and well-known researchers have contributed to this book 
writing about their own specific field. 


TABLE OF CONTENTS 
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1. Basic Notions 
   by Maurizio Rafanelli

2. Multidimensionality in Statistical, OLAP, and Scientific Databases 
   by Arie Shoshani

3. Conceptual Multidimensional Models 
   by Riccardo Torlone

4. Hierarchies 
   by Elaheh Pourabbas, Maurizio Rafanelli

5. Operators for Multidimensional Aggregate Data 
   by Maurizio Rafanelli

6. Time in Multidimensional Databases 
   by Alberto O. Mendelzon, Alejandro A. Vaisman

7. Dynamic Multidimensional Data Cubes 
   by Mirek Riedewald, Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi

8. Materialized Views in Multidimensional Databases 
   by Stefano Paraboschi, Giuseppe Sindoni, Elena Baralis, Ernest Teniente

9. Querying Multidimensional Data 
   by Leonardo Tininini

10. Incomplete Information in Multidimensional Databases 
   by Curtis E. Dyreson, Torben Bach Pedersen, Christian S. Jensen

11. Privacy in Multidimensional Databases 
   by Francesco M. Malvestuto, Marina Moscarini

12. Source Integration for Data Warehousing 
   by Andrea Calí, Domenico Lembo,  Maurizio Lenzerini, Riccardo Rosati

13. Cooperation with Geographic Databases 
   by Elaheh Pourabbas

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