Peer-to-peer (P2P) Web search has gained a lot of interest lately, due to the salient characteristics of P2P systems, namely scalability, fault-tolerance and load-balancing. Howev...
We consider a network of autonomous peers forming a logically global but physically distributed search engine, where every peer has its own local collection generated by independe...
Josiane Xavier Parreira, Sebastian Michel, Gerhard...
Abstract— The current approach in web searching, i.e., centralized search engines, rises issues that question their future applicability: 1) coverage and scalability, 2) freshnes...
: We address the problem of evaluating peer-to-peer information retrieval (P2PIR) systems with semantic overlay structure. The P2PIR community lacks a commonly accepted testbed, su...
Florian Holz, Hans Friedrich Witschel, Gregor Hein...
An important issue arising from P2P applications is how to accurately and efficiently retrieve the required Web services from large-scale repositories. This paper resolves this is...