TY - GEN
T1 - An intelligent decision support system in construction management by data warehousing technique
AU - Cao, Ying
AU - Chau, Kwok Wing
AU - Anson, M.
AU - Zhang, Jianping
PY - 2002/1/1
Y1 - 2002/1/1
N2 - The integration of a Data Warehouse and a Decision Support System (DSS) can provide construction managers with sufficient information for decision making without interrupting daily work of an On-Line Transaction Processing system. In this paper, the concepts of the data warehouse, On-Line Analysis Processing and DSS are first reviewed. The method of creating a data warehouse is then shown, changing the data in the data warehouse into a multidimensional data cube and integrating the data warehouse with a DSS. An application example is given to illustrate the use of the Construction Management Decision Support System developed in this study. This prototype system can enable the right data to be tracked down and provides the required information in a direct, rapid and meaningful way. Construction managers can view data from various perspectives with significantly reduced query time, thus making decisions more efficiently. Moreover, the approach can be applied to other fields.
AB - The integration of a Data Warehouse and a Decision Support System (DSS) can provide construction managers with sufficient information for decision making without interrupting daily work of an On-Line Transaction Processing system. In this paper, the concepts of the data warehouse, On-Line Analysis Processing and DSS are first reviewed. The method of creating a data warehouse is then shown, changing the data in the data warehouse into a multidimensional data cube and integrating the data warehouse with a DSS. An application example is given to illustrate the use of the Construction Management Decision Support System developed in this study. This prototype system can enable the right data to be tracked down and provides the required information in a direct, rapid and meaningful way. Construction managers can view data from various perspectives with significantly reduced query time, thus making decisions more efficiently. Moreover, the approach can be applied to other fields.
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M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 360
EP - 369
BT - Engineering and Deployment of Cooperative Information Systems - 1st International Conference, EDCIS 2002, Proceedings
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 1st International Conference on Engineering and Deployment of Cooperative Information Systems, EDCIS 2002
Y2 - 17 September 2002 through 20 September 2002
ER -