Decision support in a distributed environment
Daniel T. Lee · AFIPS conference proceedings · 1984
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.