Tool Kit for Distributed Data Base Architecture

The Information Distribution System concept provides the framework for establishment, distribution, and maintenance of object oriented databases within the future Army tactical command and control systems. This concept requires rules that completely describe the needs for combat information at each individual database maintained within the system, processes that locally compute updated values from the data in these databases, and triggers that permit data distribution based upon deviations from the computed norm. This effort will focus on the development of a toolkit of procedures to permit construction of the sets of rules, processes and triggers needed for generation and timely update of the Army tactical command and control systems databases. The SONEX approach centers on the utilization of Object-Oriented and Intelligent reconfigurable software engineering technologies. Through these technologies distributed data systems can be developed more efficiently and will be more reliable and maintainable. To ensure the tool kits performance test bed design will also be a critical part of this project. Test methodologies that will be investigated include statistical analysis and modeling techniques.