Identifying Reference Relationship Of Desktop Files Based On Access Logs

When writing a document, people sometimes refer to other files' information such as a picture, a phone number, an email address, a table, a document and so on, therefore reference becomes a natural relationship among desktop files which can be utilized to help people re-finding personal information or identifying information linage. Therefore how to identify reference relationship is an interesting and valuable topic. In this paper, we propose an access log-based method to identify the relationship. Firstly we propose a method to generate access logs by monitoring user desktop operations, and implement a prototype based on the method, and collect several persons' access logs by running it in personal computers. Then we propose an access logs-based method to identify reference relationship of desktop files. The experimental results verify the effectiveness and efficiency of our methods.