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Web Warehousing: Design and Issues

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Advances in Database Technologies (ER 1998)

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The World Wide Web is a distributed global information resource. It contains a large amount of information that have been placed on the web independently by different organizations and thus, related information may appear across different web sites. To manage and access heterogeneous information on WWW, we have started a project of building a web warehouse, called Whoweda (Warehouse of Web Data). Currently, our work on building a web warehousing system has focused on building a data model and designing a web algebra. In this paper, we discuss design and research issues in a web warehousing system. The issues include are designing algebraic operators for web information access and manipulation, web data visualization and web knowledge discovery. These issues will not only overcome the limitations of available search engines but also provide powerful and friendly query mechanisms for retrieving useful information and knowledge discovery from a web warehouse.

This work was supported in part by the Nanyang Technological University, Ministry of Education (Singapore) under Academic Research Fund #4-12034-5060, #4-12034-3012, #4-12034-6022. Any opinions, findings, and recommendations in this paper are those of the authors and do not reflect the views of the funding agencies.

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  1. Center for Advanced Information Systems, School of Applied Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 639798, Singapore

    S. S. Bhowmick, S. K. Madria, W.-K. Ng & E. P. Lim

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  1. Graduate School of Informatics, Dept. of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, 606-8501, Yoshida Sakyo Kyoto, Japan

    Yahiko Kambayashi

  2. Dept. of Computer Science Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China

    Dik Lun Lee

  3. School of Applied Science, Nanyang Technological University, N4-2A-12, Nanyang Avenue, 639798, Singapore

    Ee-Peng Lim

  4. School of Computer and Information Science The Levels Campus, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, 5095, S.A., Australia

    Mukesh Kumar Mohania

  5. Faculty of Science, Dept. of Information Sciences, Ochanomizu University, 2-1-1 Otsuka, Bunkyo-ku, 112-8610, Tokyo, Japan

    Yoshifumi Masunaga

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Bhowmick, S.S., Madria, S.K., Ng, WK., Lim, E.P. (1999). Web Warehousing: Design and Issues. In: Kambayashi, Y., Lee, D.L., Lim, EP., Mohania, M.K., Masunaga, Y. (eds) Advances in Database Technologies. ER 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1552. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-49121-7_8

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