—By combining an unstructured protocol with a DHT-based global index, hybrid peer-to-peer (P2P) improves search efficiency in terms of query recall and response time. The major c...
— The success of a P2P file-sharing network highly depends on the scalability and versatility of its search mechanism. Two particularly desirable search features are scope (abil...
The class of k Nearest Neighbor (kNN) queries in spatial networks is extensively studied in the context of numerous applications. In this paper, for the first time we study a gene...
Ugur Demiryurek, Farnoush Banaei Kashani, Cyrus Sh...
The popularity of collaborative tagging sites presents a unique opportunity to explore keyword search in a context where query results are determined by the opinion of a network o...
Sihem Amer-Yahia, Michael Benedikt, Laks V. S. Lak...
The existing searching schemes in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks are either forwarding-based or non-forwarding based. In forwarding-based schemes, queries are forwarded from the quer...