An Investigation Into The Communication Management System (COMS)

Abstract

<p>This report is concerned with an investigation into a software system designed to allow effect utilization of FORTRAN application programs from a library. The components of this system consist of an interpreter program to manipulate character strings and provide overall control, an evaluator program to carry out operations on numeric data and to provide for the calling of library programs, and an associative memory to store and retrieve facts about the environment or field of study in which the system is being used. Details involving how to use each component and how each component works are discussed. Possible improvements to the system and the relationship of the system to the field of control structures are also considered. The implementation of the system is discussed and this leads to an examination of the algorithms used in the operation of the system. Control is easily maintained so systems constructed from the components may be modified or extended by any user. Thus, these components form a basis for a class of extendable systems.</p>