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Decision support in a distributed environment

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Traditional means of data processing, management information systems, and decision support systems cannot meet a new demand ushered in with the evolution of mini-micro computers. A modern computer end-user, especially a modern decision maker, needs a single pool of information that may be geographically dispersed. Therefore, a new combination of technologies is needed for coping with this new demand. The purpose of this paper is to develop a unified methodology for distributed-system design with distributed databases. The distributed systems designed under this unified methodology can satisfy geographical data independence in addition to logical and physical data independence in the traditional sense.

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AFIPS '84: Proceedings of the July 9-12, 1984, national computer conference and exposition
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