ASSOCIATIVE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES STUDY.
Abstract
The concept of a general-purpose computer, called the Association-Storing Processor (ASP), is defined, and a model computer, based upon the concept, is described. The computer characteristics of simplified programming and efficient processing of non-numerical problems were the dominating considerations in the ASP concept development. The concept is concerned with a way to represent data and to state problem procedures, along with a corresponding algorithm for obtaining problem solutions. The data representation of the ASP concept is based upon the idea of explicitly storing the nature of the association between data items, together with the associated items, as a data relation. A data structure is created with this data relation as the basic element of data, and data items are addressed by their context of relations within the structure. Problem procedures are stated in terms of a single instruction type which has been designed to directly accomplish the solution of many problems in the area of fact retrieval applications. For these problems a solution is obtained without the need to write a specification of procedure (i.e., a program). This same single instruction type has been made the basis of a programming approach which provides general purpose (numerical and non-numerical) processing capability. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 01, 1965
- Accession Number
- AD0616620
Entities
People
- D. A. Savitt
- H. H. Love
Organizations
- Hughes Aircraft Company