I like the idea of unknown versus undefined at source. I stay away from using zero (although I have done so in the past), as zero is often a valid value. If you're using a true surrogate key, then that's not an issue, but often we muddy the waters by using a natural key (such as using time for a time dimension, and zero may well be a valid time).

I model in the relational DW, and then project that into SSAS, rather than model in SSAS. I guess if you model directly in SSAS without a relational DW, then you may do that there and not worry so much about it.