Knowledge File System -- A Principled Approach to Personal Information Management

The Knowledge File System (KFS) is a smart virtual file system that sits between the operating system and the file system. Its primary functionality is to automatically organize files in a transparent and seamless manner so as to facilitate easy retrieval. Think of the KFS as a personal assistant, who can file every one of you documents into multiple appropriate folders, so that when it comes time for you to retrieve a file, you can easily find it among any of the folders that are likely to contain it. Technically, KFS analyzes each file and hard links (which are simply pointers to a physical file on POSIX file systems) it to multiple destination directories (categories). The actual classification can be based on a combination of file content analysis, file usage analysis, and manually configured rules. Since the KFS organizes files using the familiar file/folder metaphor, it enjoys 3 key advantages against desktop search based solutions such as Google's Desktop Search, namely 1) ...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: ICDM
• Authors: Kuiyu Chang, I. Wayan Tresna Perdana, Bramandia Ramadhana, Kailash Sethuraman, Truc Viet Le, Neha Chachra
• Keywords: Data Mining, Desktop Search, File System, ICDM 2010, Virtual File System