Connections: Using context to enhance file search

Proceedings of the 20th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, SOSP 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 119-132

  Soules, Craig A N ^a   Ganger, Gregory R ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

context; file system search; successor models

Indexed keywords

CONTENT SEARCH; CONTENT-BASED SEARCH; CONTEXT; CONTEXT INFORMATION; FILE SYSTEMS; SEARCH TOOLS; TEMPORAL RELATIONSHIPS; USER ACTIVITY;

FILE ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84885610941     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1095810.1095822     Document Type: Conference Paper

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