Multidimensional data analysis is currently being discussed in terms like OLAP, data warehousing, or decision support, mainly concentrating on busness applications. Numerous OLAP-tools providing flexible query facilities for datacubes are being designed and distributed. Typical analysis sessions with these kind of systems comprise long and branching sequences of exploratory analysis which base upon each other. While concentrating on single functions and processing steps, management of this analysis process as a whole is scarcely supported.
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