CIM for data warehouse requirements using an UML profile.

Different modelling approaches have been proposed to automate the process of design and development of data warehouse. Some of them use the model driven architecture, however they are more focused on designing platform independent model (PIM) and platform specific model (PSM) and reserved unfortunately few efforts for requirements modelling and design computational independent model (CIM). This situation can be explained essentially by the presence of mature technologies and methods used for the representation of PIM and PSM models. Moreover, there are no standards to build CIM. Within this context, data warehousing projects fail due to not much attention paid on the requirement analysis phase. To overcome this problem, this study provides an approach to build a CIM architecture for modelling data warehouse requirements using an unified modelling language (UML) profile that extends the use cases and business process models, and proposes requirements specifications using SBVR structured English. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]