A predicate-driven document filing system

Abstract

Abstract. This paper presents a predicate-driven document filing system for organizing and automatically filing documents. A document model consists of two basic elements: frame templates representing document classes, and folders which are repositories of frame instances. The frame templates can be organized to form a document type hierarchy, which helps classify and file documents. Frame instances are grouped into a folder on the basis of user-defined criteria, specified as predicates which determine whether a frame instance belongs to a folder. Folders can naturally organized into a folder organization which represents the user's real world document filing system. The predicate consistency problem is discussed to eliminate two abnormalities from a folder organization: inapplicable edges (filing paths) and redundant folders. An evaluating net (including an association dictionary, an instantiation component and a production system) is then proposed for evaluating whether a frame instance satisfies the predicate of a folder during document filing. And the concept of consistency a rule base is also discussed.

Step-Locked Data Transformation in Personal Filing Systems

“…So the size of the supnet organization may be also reduced. Performing step by step, the transformation process continues until both the supnet and the predicate logical structure reach their simplest forms and cannot go any further [4,8]. The two reduced structures are then merged and the local predicate is reconstructed to reflect the transformation result: the simplified predicate structure and the modified folder organization.…”

“…In [1,3,8,9]], an agent based filing organization is used, in which each folder associates with a local predicate which governs the document filing for the folder.…”