Using Provenance to Aid in Personal File Search

USENIX 2007 - 2007 USENIX Annual Technical Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 171-184

  Shah, Sam ^a   Soules, Craig A N ^b   Ganger, Gregory R ^c   Noble, Brian D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

'CURRENT; CONTEXT SWITCHING; CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; DATAFLOW; DESKTOP SEARCH TOOLS; FALSE POSITIVE; FILE SEARCH; STATE OF THE ART; SWITCHING NOISE; TEMPORAL LOCALITY;

EID: 85160778757     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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