隨著企業全球化與網際網路的日漸普及，網際網路上的資料倉儲系統已經漸漸地取代傳統集中式的資料倉儲系統，成為資料倉儲架構的主流。透過網際網路，管理者可以更容易取得與分享分散式系統上的資訊，隨著資訊來源的多元化，資料倉儲系統的資訊品質與廣度也會提升，更能幫助管理者制訂宏觀的決策。然而，利用主從式架構的資料倉儲，卻有著許多相容性與成本上的問題。因此本研究將利用XML來建立Web-based的資料倉儲系統，藉由XML的彈性化、自我定義、自我描述、低成本等優點，改善主從式架構系統所不可避免的缺點。
同時，我們使用了pull和push的方法來決定哪些資料可以分享在網路上或是透過E-mail的方式傳送給一般的使用者，如此一來不但可以提升系統的容量及速度，而且還可以提高系統的安全性，以解決傳統資料倉儲系統上的缺失。另外，本系統架構不但可以使用原有的client/server資料倉儲系統也可以使用網路的資料倉儲系統。
最後，我們透過一個實例的執行來驗證我們這個系統架構的正確性，並且我們也用了一個雛形系統來證實這個系統的可行性。

Along with the enterprise globalization and Internet popularization, the web-based Data Warehouse system has gradually replaced the traditional Data Warehouse system and becomes the mainstream structure of the Data Warehouse. Through the Internet, the manager can easily obtain and share the data on the distribution system. Through the multiple data source collections, the quality and broad base of Data Warehouse can be increased and thus help managers to make more decisive policies. But utilizing the basic client/server structure of Data Warehouse can increase many tolerances and cost based problems. This paper will use the XML to establish the web-based Data Warehouse system and utilize the advantage of its flexibility, self-definition, self-description and low cost to improve the unavoidable defect of the client/server Data Warehouse system. We also use pull and push method approaches to determine what information can be shared on the Internet or delivery through e-mail. It can not only improve the scalability and speed, but also enhance the system security. Therefore, it can solve the challenges on the traditional DW system. In addition, this architecture can use for the traditional client/server DW system and web-based DW system. The last, we use a case study to prove validity of this system architecture and we also create a prototype system to prove feasibility of this system architecture.

摘　要I
AbstractII
誌　謝III
Table of ContentsIV
List of FiguresVI
List of TablesVIII
Chapter 1 Introduction1
1.1 Overview1
1.2 Research Motivation and Objectives5
1.3 Research Methodology8
1.4 Organization of the Thesis9
Chapter 2 Related Work10
2.1 The Data Warehouse and Technology10
2.1.1 The Publish and Subscribe Technology12
2.1.2 Data Cube15
2.1.3 Data Warehouse Architectures18
2.2 Development of the Metadata Model23
2.2.1 Metadata Interchange Specification (MDIS)24
2.3 XML Technology27
2.3.1 XSLT Technology28
2.3.2 DOM Technology31
Chapter 3 The XML-based Data Warehouse Architecture34
3.1 The Architecture34
3.2 The Methodology to Develop the System37
3.3 The Metadata of XML Star Schema40
3.4 Step 1: Build XML Star Schema45
3.5 Step 2: Build XML Data Cube48
3.6 XML OLAP Wrapper53
3.6.1 XSLT Template55
3.6.2 XML OLAP Control Operations57
3.6.3 XSLT Processor Object65
3.7 Summary68
Chapter 4 Case Study: A Production Market Database69
Chapter 5 System Implementation and Evaluation80
5.1 Cube Browser81
5.2 Web Data Warehouse Engine83
5.3 Cube Database86
5.4 System Evaluation87
Chapter 6 Conclusion and Future Work89
6.1 Conclusion89
6.2 Research Limitations91
6.3 Future Work92
Bibliography94
Appendix A. The Authors’s Publication List98
Appendix B. The System Application Code99

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