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Under the lights of the OLAP trend and its close relationship to decision support, the development of a formal multidimensional model is a growing effort. This effort stems from the ambition to establish the multidimensional data model similarly or comparatively to Codd’s relational model (Codd, 1970). A number of multidimensional models have been defined, formal and informal, and through their refinement more are being introduced.
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Koutsoukis, NS., Mitra, G. (2003). Information Modelling. In: Decision Modelling and Information Systems. Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series, vol 26. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0505-1_8
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