We introduce a cost model for the M-tree access method [Ciaccia et al., 1997] which provides estimates of CPU (distance computations) and I/O costs for the execution of similarity ...
We study the complexity of the problem of answering queries using materialized views. This problem has attracted a lot of attention recently because of its relevance in data integ...
: We describe our participation in the TREC 2007 Enterprise track and detail our language modeling-based approaches. For document search, our focus was on estimating a mixture mode...
Structured Peer-to-Peer systems are designed for a highly scalable, self organizing, and efficient lookup for data. The key space of the so-called Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs) ...
Simon Rieche, Klaus Wehrle, Leo Petrak, Clemens Wr...
Infomaster is an information integration system. It provides integrated access to distributed, heterogeneous information sources, thus giving its users the illusion of a centraliz...