Abstract. Fusion queries search for information integrated from distributed, autonomous sources over the Internet. We investigate techniques for e cient processing of fusion querie...
Given some of the recent advances in Distributed Hash Table (DHT) based Peer-To-Peer (P2P) systems we ask the following questions: Are there applications where unstructured querie...
Current federated systems deploy cost-based query optimization mechanisms; i.e., the optimizer selects a global query plan with the lowest cost to execute. Thus, cost functions in...
Wen-Syan Li, Vishal S. Batra, Vijayshankar Raman, ...
The availability of large amounts of heterogeneous distributed web data necessitates the integration of XML data from multiple XML sources for many reasons. For example, currently,...
Sanjay Kumar Madria, Kalpdrum Passi, Sourav S. Bho...
As more sensitive data is captured in electronic form, security becomes more and more important. Data encryption is the main technique for achieving security. While in the past en...