The Distributed Information Search COmponent (Disco) is a prototype heterogeneous distributed database that accesses underlying data sources. The Disco prototype currently focuses...
Search engines represent a key component of Web economy these days. Despite that, there is not much technical literature available on their design, fine tuning, and internal oper...
Claudine Santos Badue, Ramurti A. Barbosa, Paulo B...
This paper describes a Web-based query system for semantically heterogeneous geospatial data. Our goal is to provide DBMS type query capabilities to a proposed statewide land info...
Nancy Wiegand, Naijun Zhou, Stephen J. Ventura, Is...
We study efficient query processing in distributed web search engines with global index organization. The main performance bottleneck in this case is due to the large amount of i...
This work presents a method for automatic generate suggestions of related queries submitted to Web search engines. The method extracts information from the log of past submitted q...
Bruno M. Fonseca, Paulo Braz Golgher, Edleno Silva...