We consider the problem of building a P2P-based search engine for massive document collections. We describe a prototype system called ODISSEA (Open DIStributed Search Engine Archi...
XML database systems are expected to handle increasingly complex queries over increasingly large and highly structured XML databases. An important problem that needs to be solved ...
Iman Elghandour, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Daniel C. Zilio...
Despite the widespread and growing use of asynchronous copies to improve scalability, performance and availability, this practice still lacks a firm semantic foundation. Applicati...
In this paper, we propose a novel client-side, multi-granularity caching scheme, called "Complementary Space Caching" (CS caching), for location-based services in mobile ...
Ken C. K. Lee, Wang-Chien Lee, Baihua Zheng, Jianl...
Energy consumption of mobile readers is becoming an important issue as applications of RFID systems pervade different aspects of our lives. Surprisingly, however, these systems ar...