The web graph follows the power law distribution and has a hierarchy structure. But neither the PageRank algorithm nor any of its improvements leverage these attributes. In this p...
Yizhou Lu, Benyu Zhang, Wensi Xi, Zheng Chen, Yi L...
XML information retrieval (XML-IR) systems aim to provide users with highly exhaustive and highly specific results. To interact with XML-IR systems, users must express both their ...
Pervasive computing refers to an emerging trend towards numerous casually accessible devices connected to an increasingly ubiquitous network infrastructure. An important challenge...
In recent years, many emerging database applications deal with large sets of continuously moving data objects. Since no computer system can commit continuously occurring infinitesi...
This paper proposes the live demonstration of a prototype of MINERVA1 , a novel P2P Web search engine. The search engine is layered on top of a DHT-based overlay network that conn...
Matthias Bender, Sebastian Michel, Peter Triantafi...