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A formal system for information retrieval from files
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Volume 13 ,  Issue 2  (February 1970) table of contents
Pages: 67 - 73  
Year of Publication: 1970
ISSN:0001-0782
Authors
David Hsiao  Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Frank Harary  Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

A generalized file structure is provided by which the concepts of keyword, index, record, file, directory, file structure, directory decoding, and record retrieval are defined and from which some of the frequently used file structures such as inverted files, index-sequential files, and multilist files are derived. Two algorithms which retrieve records from the generalized file structure are presented.


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HARARY, F., NORMAN, :., AND CARTWRIGHT, D. Structural Models: An Introduction to the Theory of Directed Graphs. Wiley, New York, 1965.
 
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HSIAO, D., AND PRYWES, N. S. A system to manage an information system. In Prop. of the FID/IFIP Joint Conference on Mechanized Information Storage, Retrieval and Dissemination, Rome, Italy, 1967, pp. 637-660.
 
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IBM System/360 Operating System: Data Management. Form C28-6537-2, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, N. Y., Nov. 1966.
 
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LEFKOVITZ, D. File structures for on-line systems. Lecture notes prepared for ACM Professional Development Seminar, Philadelphia, Computer Command and Control Co., June 1968.
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MARTIN, L. D. A model for file structure determination for large on-line data files. In Proc. of the FILE 68 International Seminar on File Organization, Copenhagen, 1968, pp. 793-834.
 
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PRYWES, N. S. Man-computer problem solving with multilist. Proc. IEEE 54, 12 (Dec. 1966), 1788-1801.
 
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--, AND GRAY, H. J. The organization of a multilist-type associative memory. In Proc. of the Session on Gigacycle Computing Systems, AIEE Pub. S-136, Jan. 1962, pp. 87-101.
 
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WEXELBLAT, R. L., AND FREEDMAN, H. A. The MULTILANG on-line programming system. Proc. AFIPS 1967 Spring Joint Comput. Conf., Vol. 30, Thompson Book Co., Washington, D.C., pp. 559-569.

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