Accession Number:

AD0641267

Title:

COMPUTER-CENTERED DATA BASE SYSTEMS

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS DIV L G HANSCOM FIELD MA DIRECTORATE OF COMPUTERS

Personal Author(s):

• Buckles, Glenn A.
• Carpenter, Stewart B.

Report Date:

1966-10-01

Pagination or Media Count:

33.0

Abstract:

The paper presents a discussion of a specific information system, the Advanced Data Management ADAM system, which was established to help the designers and users of large computer-centered data-base systems. The historical background of information systems is included to provide a foundation for discussing the concepts and techniques of ADAM. An application of the ADAM system to a real problem is presented to illustrate the usefulness and practicability of the ADAM design philosophy. The main point which the authors wish to establish is that computer-centered data-base systems as exemplified by ADAM provide a useful and more advanced philosophy concerning data-base systems development than currently exists.

Descriptors:

• *DATA PROCESSING
• *MANAGEMENT ENGINEERING
• COMPUTERS
• INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
• SELECTION

Subject Categories:

• Information Science
• Computer Hardware

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE