@article{Khedr_Mahmoud_2012, title={Agents for Integrating Distributed Data for Function Computations}, volume={31}, url={https://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/article/view/1190}, abstractNote={<br />Many practical problems occur when we wish to manipulate the data in a way that requires information not included explicitly in this data, and where we have to deal with functions of such a nature. In a networked environment, the data may reside in components on a number of geographically distributed sites. These databases cannot be moved to other network sites due to security, size, and privacy consideration. In this paper, we present two self-decomposing algorithms for constructing a function from given discrete data, and finding the extrema of any function whose arguments are stored across a number of distributed databases.}, number={5}, journal={COMPUTING AND INFORMATICS}, author={Khedr, Ahmed M. and Mahmoud, Rania}, year={2012}, month={Nov.}, pages={1101–1125} }