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Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 20:49:42 +0900
From: "Arnoldo Muller" <arnoldomuller@gmail.com>
To: core-dev@hadoop.apache.org
Subject: Student Project: Filesystem namespace partitioning
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Hello,

My name is Arnoldo Muller, I am a final year PhD candidate.
I am working on similarity search for detecting Open Source license violations
(www.furiachan.org).  In my spare time, I also code a similarity
search engine (www.obsearch.net).

In am interested in the Apache Hadoop Open Source Student Project:

"Performance evaluation of existing Locality Sensitive Hashing schemes.
Research on new hashing schemes for filesystem namespace partitioning"

If nobody is working on this, I would like to know more about the scope of the
project. Do you want to define a distance function so that
similar namespaces are grouped together into the same "bucket"?
If so, I have three or four metric trees that could be used for the comparison.

Thanks,

Arnoldo Muller