Heirarchically structured directories have recently proliferated with the growth of the Internet, and are being used to store not only address books and contact information for people, but also personal profiles, network resource information, and network and service policies. These systems provide a means for managing scale and heterogeneity, while allowing for conceptual unity and autonomy across multiple directory servers in the network, in a way for superior to what conventional relational or object-oriented databases offer. Yet, in deployed systems today, much of the data is modeled in an ad hoc manner, and many of the more sophisticated “queries” involve navigational access.

Article Free Access Share on Flexible list management in a directory Authors: H. V. Jagadish AT&T Labs-Research AT&T Labs-ResearchView Profile , Mark A. Jones AT&T Labs-Research AT&T Labs-ResearchView Profile , Divesh Srivastava AT&T Labs-Research AT&T Labs-ResearchView Profile , Dimitra Vista AT&T Labs-Research AT&T Labs-ResearchView Profile Authors Info & Claims CIKM '98: Proceedings of the seventh international conference on Information and knowledge managementNovember 1998 Pages 10–19https://doi.org/10.1145/288627.288636Online:01 November 1998Publication History 6citation234DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations6Total Downloads234Last 12 Months5Last 6 weeks0 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my Alerts New Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteeReaderPDF