A transitionary system for decentralized information processing / 1423
Hirohide Hinomoto · Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) · 1987
Since the mid-70s, some multi-regional firms have adopted decentralization in information processing, influenced mainly by an increasing cost of data transmission and the availability of low-cost minior micro-computers and computer-networking technology.Given computer and communications technologies, an economic decision on whether or not a regional office should have an own computing facility depends mainly on the distance between the regional and central offices and the volume of data to be processed.Transition from centralization to decentralization often advocates a mixed system in which some regional offices use the central facility while others use local facilities.In this study, we formulate an integer-linear programming model representing such a system and then apply the model to a numerical example.