With respect to the major role information warehouses play for the management an approach for specifying management views within the requirements specification phase is presented. Based on a framework relating development phases and abstraction layers the roles of documents within development...

Ausgangspunkt dieser Arbeit ist die Feststellung in der Praxis, dass ein grosser Teil von IT-Projekten im Allgemeinen und Projekten zur Entwicklung analytischer Informationssysteme im Speziellen nach wie vor oft scheitern, bzw. zeitlich oder finanziell überzogen werden oder hinter den...

Batching orders and routing order pickers is a commonly studied problem in many picker-to-parts warehouses. The impact of individual differences in picking skills on performance has received little attention. In this paper, we show that taking into account differences in the skills of individual...

We present an efficiency model for data warehouse operations and analyze a data set to evaluate the model. The model contains salient variables to evaluate the efficiency of an organization's data warehouse operations for refresh processing and query production. The variables in the model...