This paper introduces the PeerAccess framework for reasoning about authorization in open distributed systems, and shows how a parameterization of the framework can be used to reas...
Marianne Winslett, Charles C. Zhang, Piero A. Bona...
Abstract. We consider query execution strategies for object-oriented distributed databases. There are several scenarios of query decomposition, assuming that the corresponding quer...
Hanna Kozankiewicz, Krzysztof Stencel, Kazimierz S...
Query folding refers to the activity of determining if and how a query can be answered using a given set of resources, which might be materialized views, cached results of previou...
We consider a network of autonomous peers forming a logically global but physically distributed search engine, where every peer has its own local collection generated by independe...
Josiane Xavier Parreira, Sebastian Michel, Gerhard...
Content-based full-text search is a challenging problem in Peer-toPeer (P2P) systems. Traditional approaches have either been centralized or use flooding to ensure accuracy of th...