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Nishimoto, Hideki; Ura, Shoji – Information Processing and Management, 1989
Describes an interface mechanism called "complex view support" to be used with a relational database system (RDBS) in supporting increasingly complex distributed environments in automated library systems. The interface system refers queries to multidimensional tables as well as to flat tables on RDBS and is shown to efficiently support…
Descriptors: Data Processing, Database Management Systems, Information Retrieval, Library Automation

Cooper, Lorraine K. D.; Tharp, Alan L. – Information Processing and Management, 1993
Introduces the multicharacter trie as an index structure that can improve the time needed for retrieving full-text materials stored on CD-ROMs. The advantages of this structure compared to other structures are described, and experimental results comparing it to the widely used B+ tree and other structures used for full-text retrieval are…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data Processing, Full Text Databases, Indexes