The Design and Implementation of Instructional Software Information System (ISIS).

Abstract

This thesis describes the design, implementation and user interface for an Instructional Software Information System (ISIS). The existing volume and increasing rate of growth of computer software production suggests the need for a catalogue procedure to help programmers find existing software to reduce redundant programming. The purpose of the ISIS is to provide an online software catalogue which does not require either prior instruction or familarity with keyword lexicons. Using ISIS, a user may record the characteristics of new software, and make searches for existing software by specifying its characteristics. Characteristics are specified by selection from a succession of menus. ISIS is implemented on a PDP-11 computer operating under the UNIX operating system using the INGRES data base management system. It is written in the QUEL query language embedded in the programming language C. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA056323

Entities

People

  • Ataman Yildirim

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Arrays
  • Automobiles
  • Capillary Electrophoresis
  • Catalogs
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Databases
  • Information Systems
  • Language
  • Operating Systems
  • Raman Spectroscopy

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Database Systems and Applications