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Database Management System for the Federal Courts

Jack R. Buchanan, Richard D. Fennell, Hanan Samet
March 1, 1984

A technical description of the design and implementation of a general-purpose data base programming facility, combining a network-style data base management system and a high-level system implementation programming language. The use of this facility in the development of the Courtran Criminal Docketing Automated Case Management System is also discussed. Reprint of 9 ACM Transactions on Database System 72, Number 1, (March 1984).