Towards integration of the users' preferences into the common warehouse metamodel

The key to successful integration and interoperability between applications and software products depends on the intelligent use and management of metadata. This can be accomplished by the use of the CWM standard which provides a mechanism for exchanging metadata in the data warehousing and business intelligence domain. As for, it is known that the development and maintenance of information systems based on the user's requirements play a strategic role in the making decision process. In this paper we envisage to integrate the notion of user's viewpoint into the CWM standard to allow it reuse.