Network analysis and GOLAP

Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) is an effective approach to analyzing various complex business problems, and graph is considered as a common scheme to represent the business datasets. Network analysis is a broad analytics scheme for exploring the connectivity and deriving useful analytics results. However, network analysis for graph-based OLAP presents a set of more specific analytics methods by utilizing graph model, network property, and OLAP principles. In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey on network analysis conducted on graph model for the purpose of OLAP, and we summarize the current research focus, paradigms, and the future needs on the target technology.