Notice of RetractionBuilding global view with log files in a distributed/network system

Notice of Retraction

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In a previous work, a novel flow-net methodology for accountability was proposed to build accountable audit data as well as to retrieve useful information by exploring the audit data. In this work, we attempt to instantiate the flow-net methodology in a distributed/networked system by exploiting log files which are recorded locally on each node in the system. To improve the efficiency of retrieving data, we propose the idea of building a global view of the system with a clustered log collecting scheme to help the monitoring node gain a whole view of the system by building up and maintaining high level log files.