ADAPT I Preliminary Functional and System Design Specification.
Abstract
Under the ADAPT project, a prototype intelligent terminal will be developed which provides users and/or other systems a uniform interface for accessing multiple online data bases located on different systems. The underlying technology applied by ADAPT will be the transformation from one uniform data language, UDL, to other target query languages which reside on a network. The four data base systems/query languages that UDL will be transformed to are the SIGINT On-Line Information System (SOLIS), Defense Intelligence Agency On-Line System (DIAOLS)/Intelligence Support System (ISS), Data Base Management System 1100 (DMS-1100)/Query Language Processor (QLP), and Technical Information Processing Systems (TIPS)/TIPS Interrogation Language (TILE). The ADAPT system is comprised of 11 distinct UNIX processes. Significant processes are the Data Definition Language (DDL) Processor which provides ADAPT 1 users with a full file definition facility via an interactive language; two language transformation processes (one for true interactive query languages and the other for transaction-oriented (batch) data base systems); and a data base response translation processer which maps all distant host data responses onto a compatible UDL data representation. All ADAPT 1 processes operate over a UNIX hierarchical file structure composed of a set of UNIX directories and internally structured files. The structured files comprise the global data for ADAPT 1. Key to the language transformations performed by ADAPT 1 is the normalization of selection-criteria generalized boolean expressions) to disjunctive-normal-form (DNF). (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 01, 1976
- Accession Number
- ADA032006
Entities
People
- L. R. Erickson
- M. E. Soleglad
- S. L. Westermark