Closing Ontologies to Define OLAP Systems

Manuel Torres, José Samos and Eladio Garví
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Manuel Torres: University of Almeria, Almeria, Spain
José Samos: University of Granada, Granada, Spain
Eladio Garví: University of Granada, Granada, Spain

International Journal of Information Retrieval Research (IJIRR), 2014, vol. 4, issue 4, 1-16

Abstract: Ontologies can be used in the construction of OLAP (On-Line Analytical Processing) systems. In such a context, ontologies are mainly used either to enrich cube dimensions or to define ontology based-dimensions. On the one hand, if dimensions are enriched using large ontologies, like WordNet, details that are beyond the scope of the dimension may be added to it. Even, dimensions may be obscured because of the massive incorporation of related attributes. On the other hand, if ontologies are used to define a dimension, it is possible that a simplified version of the ontology is needed to define the dimension, especially when the used ontology is too complex for the dimension that is being defined. These problems may be solved using one of the existing mechanisms to define ontology views. Therefore, concepts that are not needed for the domain ontology are kept out of the view. However, this view must be closed so that, no ontology component has references to components that are not included in the view. In this work, two basic approaches are proposed: enlargement and reduction closure.

Date: 2014
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