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The interest for OLAP (standing for On-Line Analytical Processing), working on multidimensional databases is growing dramatically due to its interest in data analysis and data mining. Recent works (LBMD+00),(LGM00) showed the great interest of integrating fuzzy set theory in such technologies in the framework of data mining. We now propose to enhance the multidimensional data model to handle fuzziness. This model then provides the way to apply OLAP Mining methods on Fuzzy Multidimensional Databases, for Fuzzy-OLAP Mining.

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