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Forgetful Digital Memory: Towards Brain-Inspired Long-Term Data and Information Management

Authors:

Claudia Niederee,

Nattiya Kanhabua,

Francesco Gallo,

Robert H. LogieAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGMOD Record, Volume 44, Issue 2

Pages 41 - 46

https://doi.org/10.1145/2814710.2814718

Published: 12 August 2015 Publication History

Abstract

With the growing volumes of and reliance on digital content, there is a clear need for better information managementapproaches that keep relevant information accessible and usable in long-term encapsulated together with the evolving context information that is needed for its interpretation. Inspired by the role of forgetting in the human brain, in this paper, we envision a concept of managed forgetting for systematically dealing with information that progressively ceases in importance and also with redundant information - leading to a form of Forgetful Digital Memory. Managed forgetting is meant to complement rather than copy human remembering and forgetting. It can be regarded as functions of attention and significance dynamics relying on multi-faceted information assessment. Its goal is to introduce an alternative to the dominating 'keep-it-all' strategy for digital content, which ensures that the important content is kept safe, useful, and understandable over time

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ACM SIGMOD Record Volume 44, Issue 2

June 2015

56 pages

ISSN:0163-5808

DOI:10.1145/2814710

Editors:
Yanlei Diao
University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Pablo Barceló
Universidad de Chile
,
Vanessa Braganholo
Universidade Federal Fluminense
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Marco Brambilla
Politecnico di Milano
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Chee Yong Chan
National University of Singapore
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Rada Chirkova
North Carolina State University
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Anastasios Kementsietsidis
Google Research
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Olga Papaemmanoui
Brandeis Univesity
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Aditya Parameswaran
University of Illinois
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Anish Das Sarma
Google Research
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Alkis Simitsis
HP Labs
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Nesime Tatbul
ETH Zurich
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Marianne Winslett
University of Illinois
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Jun Yang
Duke University

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