Distributed Relational Database System of Occasionally Connected Databases

The Troop Command at the Presidio of Monterey requires an information system that will provide timely and accurate data about all serviced troop activities with students and permanent party stationed at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center. Data sources that could provide required information already exist, but are physically spread over the Presidio, are maintained in diverse formats, and are not interconnected. Some data sources, maintained by other activities located at the Presidio, are available on the Campus Area Network. As new technologies emerged, it became possible to integrate all available data sources into a heterogeneous distributed information system, in which some information will be shared, while other information will be under some degree of local control. This thesis studies the feasibility of such an information system, and proposes one possible implementation.