This paper extends existing methods for information searching and sharing in large-scale, dynamic networks of agents, to deal with networks of heterogeneous agents: Agents that do...
We show that nodes of high degree tend to occur infrequently in random graphs but frequently in a wide variety of graphs associated with real world search problems. We then study ...
In the light of image retrieval evolving from text annotation to content-based and from standalone applications to web-based search engines, we foresee the need for deploying cont...
Napster pioneered the idea of peer-to-peer file sharing, and supported it with a centralized file search facility. Subsequent P2P systems like Gnutella adopted decentralized sea...
Yatin Chawathe, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Lee Breslau, Nic...
OAI is designed with a low-barrier technology approach, thus allowing institutions to provide content metadata with little effort. On the other hand, search capabilities are very ...