A new design method for managing spatial vagueness in classical relational Spatial OLAP Architectures
Une nouvelle méthodologie pour la gestion du vague spatial dans les architectures Spatial OLAP classiques
Résumé
Spatial Data Warehouses (SDW) and Spatial OLAP (SOLAP) systems are well-known Business Intelligence technologies that aim to support multidimensional and online analysis of huge volumes of datasets with spatial reference. Spatial vagueness is one of the most neglected imperfections of spatial data. Although several works propose new ad-hoc models for handling spatial vagueness in information systems, the implementation of those models in Spatial DBMS and SDW is still in an embryonic state. Thus, in this paper, we present a new design method for SOLAP datacubes that allows handling vague spatial data analysis issues. This method relies on a risk management method applied to the potential risks of data misinterpretation and decision-makers’ tolerance levels to those risks. We also present a system implementing our method