A conceptual spatio-temporal multidimensional model
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Universidad de Medellín
Facultad de Ingenierías
Medellín
Facultad de Ingenierías
Medellín
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Today, thanks to global positioning systems technologies and mobile devices equipped with tracking sensors, and a lot of data about moving objects can be collected, e.g., spatio-temporal data related to the movement followed by objects. On the other hand, data warehouses, usually modeled using a multidimensional view of data, are specialized databases to support the decision-making process. Unfortunately, conventional data warehouses are mainly oriented to manage alphanumeric data. In this article, we incorporate temporal elements to a conceptual spatial multidimensional model resulting in a spatio-temporal multidimensional model. We illustrate our proposal with a case study related to animal migration.
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Data warehouses, multidimensional models, conceptual modeling, moving objects