TY - BOOK AU - Emad Saddad Abdelhakeim AU - Ali Hamed Elbastawissy , AU - Mahmoud Abdalwahed Rafea , AU - Osman Hegazy , TI - The change management in multidimensional structures in data warehouses / PY - 2009/// CY - Cairo : PB - Emad Saddad Abdelhakeim , KW - Data warehouses KW - External data sources KW - Multidimensional structures N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Computers and Information - Department of Information System; Issued also as CD N2 - Data warehouses integrates autonomous and heterogeneous External Data Sources (EDSs). EDSs change in time independently of each other and independently of the DW . That integrates them . The dynamic nature of EDSs and real world lead to schema changes in DWs. The main problems with the traditional DWs are that it does not ; 1. support changes on multidimensional instances or multidimensional structures 2. provide appropriate analysis of data coming from different time periods that cause incorrectness querying a DW and 3 facilitate prediction of the future UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -