The hierarchical agglomerative clustering with Gower index: A methodology for automatic design of OLAP cube in ecological data processing context

Thereby the Gower index in a hierarchical agglomerative clustering permits the management of heterogeneous dataset with missing values in a context of automatic building of OLAP cube. With this methodology, we can build new dimensions based on hierarchies in the data, which are not evident. The data mining methods can complete the expert knowledge during the design of an OLAP cube, because these methods can explain the inherent structure of the data.