“…With specific reference to requirements elicitation, several works propose methods and tools to express the analysis requirements and translate them into multidimensional schemata (see [25] for an up-to-date survey). Examples of tools adopted to this end are UML use case diagrams, natural language, and interviews [26,27]. However, these tools appear ineffective when decisionmakers have poor skills in DW and OLAP, since they are either too complex (e.g., UML or extensions of the Entity/Relationship model [28,18]), or too ambiguous (e.g., natural language).…”