SOLID A GENERAL HIGHSPEED LOGICAL DATA INDEPENDENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH BOUNDED SEARCH TIMES

The General Information Management GIM system defined in this paper is designed to 1 be information independent 2 be logically data independent it is therefore question type independent 3 honor requests for information in small and bounded search times 4 provide a security system that is foolproof, virus proof and easy to use 5 be economical and efficient in the use of memory and data communication systems and 6 be modular in design to function in distributed or standalone environments. The basis of the GIM system is a context free language or data structure, called JOBLIST, and a simulated communications network, called SOLID. Queries, converted to JOBLIST, directly describe the information paths in SOLID that terminate with the locations of the referenced information. There is no directory. A proofofprinciple prototype has established that the JOBLISTSOLID system fully meets the above specifications.