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2014-05-01

Goal oriented requirements engineering in data warehouses: A comparative study

Ingeniería de requerimientos orientado a objetivos en almacenes de datos: un estudio comparativo

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Requirements Engineering, Goal Oriented, Data Warehouses (en)
Ingeniería de Requerimientos, Orientado a Objetivos, Almacenes de Datos (es)

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  • Ania Cravero Leal Universidad de La Frontera
  • Samuel Sepúlveda Universidad de La Frontera
  • Alejandro Mate Universidad de Alicante
  • José Norberto Mazón Universidad de Alicante
  • Juan Trujillo Universidad de Alicante

Data warehouses provide historical information about the organization that needs to be analyzed by the decision makers; therefore, it is essential to develop them in the context of a strategic business plan. In recent years, a number of engineering approaches for goal-oriented requirements have been proposed, which can obtain the information requirements of a data warehouse using traditional techniques and the objectives of the modeling. This paper provides an overview and a comparative study of the treatment of the requirements in the existing approaches to serve as a starting point for further research.

Los almacenes de datos proveen información histórica de la organización que requiere ser analizada por los tomadores de decisiones, por lo que es primordial desarrollarlos en el contexto del plan estratégicos del negocio. En los últimos años se han propuesto una serie de enfoques de ingeniería de requerimientos orientada a objetivos que permiten obtener los requisitos de información, a cubrir por el almacén de datos, mediante técnicas tradicionales y del modelado de objetivos. Este trabajo, ofrece una visión general y un estudio comparativo del tratamiento de los requisitos en los actuales enfoques con el fin de servir de punto de inicio a posteriores trabajos de investigación.

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