Data Warehouses are databases specialized for business intelligence applications, and have been rapidly spreading within the industrial world over the last decade, due to their undeniable contribution to increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of the decision process within business and scientific domains. This wide diffusion was supported by remarkable research results on the one hand, by the quick advancement of commercial tools on the other. However, several issues still need to be deeply investigated and well understood in order to achieve full maturity for the technologies employed in data warehousing systems.

Aim of the Workshop

Like the previous successful DOLAP workshops held in conjunction with CIKM, the sixth edition of the Workshop on Data Warehousing and OLAP (DOLAP 2003) aims to reduce the gap between the research community and industry practitioners. It provides an international forum where both researchers and practitioners can share their findings in theoretical foundations, current methodologies, practical experiences, and new research directions in the areas of data warehousing and OLAP.

Sponsored by ACM SIGIR and SIGMIS