General-purpose search engines such as AltaVista and Lycos are notorious for returning irrelevant results in response to user queries. Consequently, thousands of specialized, topi...
In mobile ad-hoc peer-to-peer (M-P2P) networks, a large percentage of the mobile peers typically do not provide any service to the network, thereby motivating incentive schemes for...
The World Wide Web is growing at such a pace that even the biggest centralized search engines are able to index only a small part of the available documents on the Internet. The d...
An eddy [2] is a highly adaptive query processing operator that continuously reoptimizes a query in response to changing runtime conditions. It does this by treating query process...
Current peer-to-peer (p2p) full-text keyword search techniques fall into the following categories: document-based partitioning, keyword-based partitioning, hybrid indexing, and se...