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Brainiattic: Remember more with your own Metaverse enhanced brain attic

I recently described the idea of “activity context” and suggested that providing this new type of information about data (meta-data) to applications would permit improve important tasks such as finding. My examining committee challenged me to think about what I would do if my proposed service – Indaleko – already existed today. This is the […]

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Relationships

I recently described two file systems (QMDS and GFS) that attempted to capture additional context for files to improve their usability. At Eurosys, I argued (somewhat successfully) that a distinguishing characteristic of my proposed work is to capture relationships between files, something that goes beyond mere isolated analysis of such files. Index servers, which are […]

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GFS: a Graph-based File System Enhanced with Semantic Features

GFS: a Graph-based File System Enhanced with Semantic FeaturesDaniele Di Sarli and Filippo Geraci, Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Information System and Data Mining, pp. 51-55, Charleston, SC, US. In this paper we describe GFS (graph-based file system) a new hybrid file system that extends the standard hierarchical organization of files with semantic […]

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Graph File Systems

We submitted a paper to HotOS 2019 in which we (unsuccessfully) made the argument that file systems as hierarchies is hobbling our ability to enhance the usability of file systems. One of the blind reviews pointed to a pair of papers, one of which I’ve already reviewed (I’ll review the other, but I didn’t consider […]

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