Abstract
Information storage and retrieval (IS&R) systems using personal computers become important as computers be developed. An IS&R sysem for the computer science literature using a personal computer is presented and its retrieval procedures are evaluated in this paper. The IS&R system is programmed with CP/M BASIC and the total program files are 109KB. These IS&R program files, data files for the literature, and CP/M BASIC utility programs are saved on three minidisks (130KB/disk), which can store about 800 literatures. The IS&R system is designed by using several efficient data manipulation algorithms in storage and retrieval. Binary search is mainly used in data retrieval, and quicksort and radix sort are used in sorting of stored data. The system constructs inverted files for the retrieval items automatically in order to realize efficient retrieval. Besides this IS&R system provides many retrieval commands.
