9:10-10:00      Keynote speech:  My Favorite Problems in Decision Support Systems

Surajit Chaudhuri (Microsoft)

Session 1:  10:15-12:00          Data Warehouse Design

Chair: Il-Yeol Song (Drexel University)

A Methodological Framework for Data Warehouse Design

Matteo Golfarelli and Stefano Rizzi (DEIS – Univ. of Bologna)

A Framework for Object-Oriented On-line Analytic Processing

Jan W. Buzydlowski, Il-Yeol Song, and Lewis Hassell (Drexel University)

An Object-Oriented Approach to Multidimensional Database Conceptual Modeling (OOMD)

J. Trujillo and M. Palomar (Universidad de Alicante, Spain)

The OLAP Market: State of the Art and Research Issues

Barbara Dinter, Carsten Sapia, Gabriele Hofling, and markus Blaschka (Barvarian Research Center for Knowledge Based Systems, Germany)

1:00-2:00    Keynote speech: A Logically and Mathematically Grounded Model for OLAP

Erik Thomsen (Dimensional Systems)

Session 2:   2:15-4:00    OLAP

Chair: Toby J. Teorey (University of Michigan)

Improving Main Memory Utilization for Array-Based DataCube Computation

Seigo Muto and Masaru Kitsuregawa (University of Tokyo)

High Performance Multidimensional Analysis of Large Datasets

Sanjay Goil and Alok Choudhary (Northwestern University)

A Multidimensional Modeling Approach for OLAP within the Framework on the Relational Model based on Quotient Relations

O. Mangisengi and A.M. TJOA (Technical University of Vienna, Austria)

Data Warehousing in an Integrated Health System: Building the Business Case

Edward F. Ewen, Carl Medsker, Laura E. Dusterhoft, Kelly Levan-Shultz, James L. Smith, and Milton A. Gottschall (Christian Care Health Systems)

Session 3:   4:15-6:00    Materialized Views

Chair: Elke A. Rundensteiner (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

Query Reformulation Using Materialized Views in Data Warehousing Environment

Jae-Young Chang and Sang-goo Lee (Seoul National University, Korea)

Integrating the Rewriting and Ranking Phases of View Synchronization

Andreas Koeller, Elke A. Rundensteiner, and Nabil Hachem (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

Partitioned Auxiliary Views for Self-Maintainable Data Warehouses

Mala Rajamani and Karen C. Davis (University of Cincinnati)

Dynamic Maintenance of Multidimensional Range Data Partitioning for Parallel Data Processing

Junping Sun(Nova Southeastern University) and William I. Grosky (Wayne State University)