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The Unified Modeling Language (UML) has become the de facto standard for object-oriented analysis and design, providing different diagrams for modeling different aspects of a system. In this paper, we present the development of multidimensional (MD) models for dataware-houses (DW) using UML package diagrams. In this way, when modeling complex and large DW systems, we are not restricted to use flat UML class diagrams. We present design guidelines and illustrate them with various examples. We show that the correct use of the package diagrams using our design guidelines will produce a very simple yet powerful design of MD models. Furthermore, we provide a UML extension by means of stereotypes of the particular package items we use. Finally, we show how to use these stereotypes in Rational Rose 2000 for MD modeling.
This paper has been partially supported by the Spanish Ministery of Science and Technology, project number TIC2001-3530-C02-02.
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Luján-Mora, S., Trujillo, J., Song, I.Y. (2002). Multidimensional Modeling with UML Package Diagrams. In: Spaccapietra, S., March, S.T., Kambayashi, Y. (eds) Conceptual Modeling — ER 2002. ER 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2503. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45816-6_24
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