Report on the ACM Sixth International Workshop on Data Warehousing and OLAP (DOLAP 2003) Stefano Rizzi University of Bologna Bologna, Italy srizzi@deis.unibo.it Il-Yeol Song Drexel University Philadelphia, USA song@drexel.edu 1. Introduction Data Warehouses are specialized databases for intelligent business applications. Data Warehouses have been rapidly spreading in the industrial world over the last decade due to their undeniable contribution to increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of the decision process within business and scientific domains. This wide diffusion was supported by remarkable research results on the one hand, and by the quick advancement of commercial tools on the other. However, several issues still need to be deeply investigated and well understood in order to achieve full maturity for the technologies employed in data warehousing systems. The DOLAP (ACM International Workshop on Data Warehousing and OLAP) series of workshops, which started in 1998, has become a landmark for researchers and practitioners in the data warehousing field over the past years. DOLAP provides an exciting forum of discussions for innovative ideas and solutions in both basic and applied research. The sixth edition of DOLAP was held on November 7, 2003 in New Orleans, in conjunction with CIKM 03. It was a
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