Data archiving systems rely on replication to preserve information. This paper discusses how a network of autonomousarchiving sites can trade data to achievethe most reliable repl...
For querying structured and semistructured data, data retrieval and document retrieval are two valuable and complementary techniques that have not yet been fully integrated. In thi...
1 The unstructured Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems usually use a “blind search” method to find the requested data object by propagating a query to a number of peers randomly. In or...
The advent of XML as a universal exchange format, and of Web services as a basis for distributed computing, has fostered the apparition of a new class of documents: dynamic XML do...
This paper presents an approach to realize a case retrieval engine on top of a relational database. In a nutshell the core idea is to approximate a similarity-based retrieval with ...