With the proliferation of geographic data and resources over the Internet, there is an increasing demand for integration services that allow a transparent access to massive reposit...
Abstract— This paper presents our work on supporting flexible query evaluation over large distributed, heterogeneous, and autonomous sources. Flexibility means that the query ev...
The mediator-wrapper approach to integrate data from heterogeneous data sources has usually been centralized in the sense that a single mediator system is placed between a number o...
It is demonstrated how to provide a peer-to-peer system that supports an expressive query language while maintaining efficient distribution over a wide-area network. The key is to...
We propose a new distributed, fault-tolerant Peer-to-Peer index structure for resource discovery applications called the P-tree. P-trees efficiently support range queries in addit...
Adina Crainiceanu, Prakash Linga, Johannes Gehrke,...