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Expanding a distributed deductive database with mobile computing

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Abstract

Mobile computing is a component that will be included in many future computing environments. This paper presents a scheme that will allow the addition of a mobile component to an existing distributed deductive database. This scheme allows for the following features: 1) data replication on the mobile unit, 2) transaction logging to log changes both in the mobile user's database and in the network's database, 3) concurrency control to prevent both copies from updating the same record, and 4) reconnection procedures to update both copies upon reconnection. To facilitate data replication and reconnection updates, we have established ‘Proxy Nodes’ in the network database to keep track of data of interest to the mobile user.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois

    Martin Maskarinec

  2. Department of Computer Science, Western Illinois University, Stipes Hall 447, 1 University Circle, Macomb, Illinois, USA

    Kathleen Neumann

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Maskarinec, M., Neumann, K. Expanding a distributed deductive database with mobile computing. Personal Technologies 1, 182–187 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01299652

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