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centralized party structure that stifled rank-and-file initiative and imposed a party line determined in Moscow and Berlin

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Databases and Information Systems Gisela centralized party structure that stifledModern information systems differ in essence from their predecessors. They support operations at multiple locations and different time zones, are distributed and network based, and use multidimensional data analysis, data warehousing, knowledge discovery, knowledge management, mobile computing, and other modern information processing methods. This book considers fundamental issues of modern information systems. It discusses query processing, data