Date of Award

1994

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

First Advisor

Ishwar Murthy

Abstract

There are two important problems associated with the design of distributed database systems. One is the file allocation problem, and the other is the query optimization problem. In this research a methodology that considers both these aspects is developed that determines the optimal location of files and join sites for given queries simultaneously. Using this methodology, three different mixed integer programming models that describe three cases of the file allocation and join site selection problem are developed. Dual-based procedures are developed for each of the three mixed integer programming models. Extensive computational testing is performed which shows that the dual-based algorithms developed are able to generate solutions which are very close to the optimal. Also, these near optimal solutions are found very quickly, even for large scale problems.

Pages

123

DOI

10.31390/gradschool_disstheses.5756

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