Abstract. We consider query execution strategies for object-oriented distributed databases. There are several scenarios of query decomposition, assuming that the corresponding quer...
Hanna Kozankiewicz, Krzysztof Stencel, Kazimierz S...
A precise analysis of the retrieval of signature trees is presented. A signature tree is a data structure constructed over a signature file to speed up searching all those signatu...
Data access prediction has been proposed as a mechanism to overcome latency lag, and more recently as a means of conserving energy in mobile systems. We present a fully adaptive p...
James Larkby-Lahet, Ganesh Santhanakrishnan, Ahmed...
We introduce IR-Wire, a tool for information retrieval research and education in peer-to-peer file-sharing systems. Built on top of LimeWire's implementation of the popular G...
Linh Thai Nguyen, Wai Gen Yee, Dongmei Jia, Ophir ...
The Gnutella protocol requires peers to broadcast messages to their neighbours when they search files. The message passing generates a lot of traffic in the network, which degrade...
Yamini Upadrashta, Julita Vassileva, Winfried K. G...