Abstract. We consider a collaboration of peers autonomously crawling the Web. A pivotal issue when designing a peer-to-peer (P2P) Web search engine in this environment is query rou...
Sebastian Michel, Matthias Bender, Peter Triantafi...
We examine issues in the design of fully dynamic information retrieval systems with support for instantaneous document insertions and deletions. We present one such system and dis...
Indexing XML is crucial for efficient XML query processing. We propose a compact tree (Ctree) for XML indexing, which provides not only concise path summaries at group level but a...
Queries over XML documents challenge search engines to return the most relevant XML components that satisfy the query concepts. In a previous work[6] we described an algorithm to ...
— The ubiquity of mobile devices has led to a rising demand for location-based services and applications. A major part of these services is based on the location-detection capabi...