ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
SIGCOMM '89 Symposium proceedings on Communications architectures & protocols
Nomenclator descriptive query optimization for large X.500 environments
SIGCOMM '91 Proceedings of the conference on Communications architecture & protocols
The ITC distributed file system: principles and design
Proceedings of the tenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
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Advances in computer and network technology have fueled the proliferation of distributed data and applications. From on-line information to distributed databases, data systems place vast amounts of information at the disposal of Internet users. As archives grow, users increasingly face the problem of sifting through gigabytes of data to find useful information.We focus on the most basic and one of the larger types of data systems on the Internet, file and document systems. While distributed file systems like NFS [4] and AFS [11] make accessing remote files easier, these systems do not help the user discover, or find, new information. Most of this recent file systems work has focused on integrating heterogeneous, hierarchical, file systems. In fact it can be argued that they make the discovery process more difficult by overwhelming the user with data sources.In this paper we discuss information discovery concepts, survey some of the recent research, and explore name space browsing and information discovery issues.