Requirements Engineering for Data Warehouses
Abstract
Data Warehouses (DWs) aim at supporting the decision-making process
of an organization. In the Requirements Engineering (RE) domain, several
methods were proposed for the development of DWs, most of them based
on the Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering (GORE) approach. However,
there is not yet a comprehensive and unified perspective of the various methods
proposed. In this paper, a coherent view of the GORE approach for the development
of DWs is presented, by classifying existing methods according to the
decision-making process, integrating them together, and linking modeling and
analysis techniques throughout the overall process. The result of our study is an
integrated GORE-based method for the development of DWs. We illustrate the
method with a concrete example from the health care sector.