Searching for Memory

Introduction: Searching for Cultural Memory

This Introduction situates the papers and commentaries of this Special Issue on ‘Narrative and Cultural Memory’ within the context of a new multidisciplinary research literature that suggests localizing memory in culture and, in doing so, focuses on the role of narrative. This literature is viewed against the backdrop of a fundamental critique of the traditional notion of memory as reflecting o...

Linux Memory Forensics: Searching For Processes

Physical memory is a useful information source in a forensic examination, but the research on memory forensics is still in the early stage. Once the processes are located, computer forensic personnel can acquire the opened files, the network connections via further processing. This paper proposed methods of searching for process descriptors in Linux dump file. Our experiments shows that our met...

Psychology. Searching for the Google effect on people's memory.

Colored Range Searching on Internal Memory

Recent advances in various application fields, like GIS, finance and others, has lead to a large increase in both the volume and the characteristics of the data being collected. Hence, general range queries on these datasets are not sufficient enough to obtain good insights and useful information from the data. This leads to the need for more sophisticated queries and hence novel data structure...

Searching Heterogeneous Human Digital Memory Archives

Advances in digital storage technologies mean that vast digital archives of ones personal life experiences can now be generated. These personal archives (Human Digital Memories (HDMs)) can contain many types of data in various media created or accessed by the individual. These archives are of little benefit if an individual cannot locate and retrieve significant items from them. Existing search...