Document Filing Approaches Using an Internal Based Folder Organization

This paper proposes a Rooted Direct Acyclic Graph (RDAG) represented internal folder organization which supplements the architectural deficiencies of the existing user folder organization, to electronically model a person's filing system in the modern working environment. An internal folder organization gives a logical representation of how documents of the same or different kinds are related and grouped into folders based on predefined premises. Each node in the graph represents a folder; and folders are related by ¿subfolder relationship¿ (for capturing the ¿and¿ relation) and ¿virtual-folder relationship¿ (for capturing the ¿or¿ relation). Each folder in the organization has a criterion, specifying in terms of a local predicate, which governs the document filing for that folder. The paper also investigates how the new model demonstrates its architectural support in filing - It improves the performance of document distribution.