Internal structure of the guide to available mathematical software
Ronald F. Boisvert, Sally E. Howe, Jeanne L Springmann · 1989
The purpose of the NIST Guide to Available Mathematical Software (GAMS) project is to provide convenient documentation tools for users and maintainers of scientific computer software.The main components of this effort are a detailed treestructured, problem-oriented classification scheme for mathematical and statistical software, a printed catalog based upon this classification scheme which integrates information about all available software, an on-line interactive version of this catalog, and a relational database containing all information upon which the on-line and off-line catalogs rely, along with associated maintenance programs.This report presents a detailed specification of the internal structure of the GAMS database and the programs used to manipulate it.This information is useful to those who wish to implement the GAMS systems on their own computer systems.