New OLAP Operators for Missing Data
Abstract
Data analysis of social networks is often impeded by the problem
of missing data. Recent studies highlight the negative effects of this problem
mainly regarding querying process. The analysis of data social networks would
be severely distorted when limited to filled fields (i.e., not null valued fields)
whereas missing data are ignored. To overcome the missing data problem, we
provide in this paper an extension of classical Drilldown and Rollup operators
in order to support analyses on multidimensional datasets containing missing
values of dimension members.