In many modern applications such as biometric identification systems, sensor networks, medical imaging, geology, and multimedia databases, the data objects are not described exact...
— Estimation of network proximity among nodes is an important building block in several applications like service selection and composition, multicast tree formation, and overlay...
This paper addresses the efficient processing of similarity queries in metric spaces, where data is horizontally distributed across a P2P network. The proposed approach does not r...
Peer-to-peer systems, exchanging dynamic documents through Web services, are a simple and effective platform for data integration on the internet. Dynamic documents can contain b...
This paper presents a parallel algorithm for recursive query processing and shows how it can be efficiently implemented in a local computer network. The algorithm relies on an int...