Distributed information retrieval is a well-known approach for accessing heterogeneous, highly autonomous sources of unstructured information. Selecting and querying only a number ...
Decentralized and unstructured peer-to-peer (P2P) networks such as Gnutella are attractive for Internet-scale information retrieval and search systems because they require neither...
Malicious software is prevalent in many forms with the potential for many types of malware to be downloaded while browsing the Internet using an unprotected system. The potential ...
Today, several data-storage systems allow applications to create and manage custom metadata to improve data search and navigability in large-scale storage systems. Our thesis is t...
With the rise of cloud computing, it is increasingly attractive for end-users (organizations and individuals) to outsource the management of their data to a small number of larges...
Daniel Fabbri, Arnab Nandi, Kristen LeFevre, H. V....