A Novel Distributed Multidimensional Management Approach for Modelling Proactive Decision Making

The aim of this paper is to propose a new model for supporting proactive decision making in large enterprises. These organizations usually encounter enormous electronic transactions upon distributed infrastructures. The stockpiled data collections in these systems are the best source for providing necessary material for decision-making process to support managers and executives. The existing models for supporting decision-making, encounter practical problems while facing distributed databases. This paper introduces a new model that is designed to tackle the problem. The paper shows how the proposed model can be the best blueprint to increase the competitive advantage of an organization by intelligent use of the collections of data and synthesize useful knowledge. The proposed model is multidimensional because it is based on multidimensional data model concepts. It is also multilayer because it widely depends on multilayer mining theory concepts. The paper also presents the results of an empirical study to evaluate the model and the results of applying the model to real data collections.