Basis of a Partially Informed Distributed Database

Summary: Introduces partially informed replicated databases where sites have limited knowledge of data and peers, replacing global directories with a topological knowledge model supporting autonomous sub-domains. A propositional calculus and search heuristics enable efficient data-location discovery. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 8011
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1987
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Overall Rank: 14,447 | 0.89%
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1. Mark Blakey (Monash University; Telecom Australia)

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@article{blakey_vldb87,
        title = {{Basis of a Partially Informed Distributed Database}},
        author = {Blakey, Mark},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '87},
        pages = {381},
        year = {1987}
}

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