Efficient Topological OLAP on Information Networks

• Main Authors: QU, Qiang, ZHU, Feida, YAN, Xifeng, HAN, Jiawei, YU, Philip, LI, Hongyan
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2011
• Subjects: Databases and Information Systems; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1370; http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1997343
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We propose a framework for efficient OLAP on information networks with a focus on the most interesting kind, the topological OLAP (called "TOLAP"), which incurs topological changes in the underlying networks. T-OLAP operations generate new networks from the original ones by rolling up a su...