Abstract
To efficiently manage business information which is heterogeneous is one of the important tasks in business management field. Database has growing popularity as a solution to it. But it is expensive for a small application or an experimental use. This paper presents an Associative Informatiion Model which is based on associator. Database-like features can be compactly obtained with this model. Associators are the units to storing mappings among simple symbolic informations or their structures with hash function for quickness. Furthermore, by linking associators as linked list, arbitrary information structure can be built on them. This mechanism can be commonly used. And it is easy to implement it. As an example, this model has been built on the Lisp machine named ALPS/I, our original computer, and some applications are shown in this paper.
