Existing estimation approaches for multi-dimensional databases often rely on the assumption that data distribution in a small region is uniform, which seldom holds in practice. Mo...
Formulating and executing queries over distributed, autonomous and heterogeneous resources is an important research area. The advent of the Internet and the Web and their inherent...
Abstract—Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems are widely used for sharing digital items without structured metadata and in absence of any kind of digital rights management applied to the d...
Walter Allasia, Francesco Gallo, Marco Milanesio, ...
A Decentralized Market Information System (DMIS) that aggregates and provides information about markets is an important component for achieving markets in Grid and Peer-to-Peer sys...
It has been widely observed that search queries are composed in a very different style from that of the body or the title of a document. Many techniques explicitly accounting for...