SmartSeer: Using a DHT to Process Continuous Queries Over Peer-to-Peer Networks

— As the academic world moves away from physical journals and proceedings towards online document repositories, the ability to efficiently locate work of interest among the torrent of newly-generated papers will become increasingly important. To aid in this endeavor, we designed SmartSeer, a system that allows users to register personalized continuous queries over the CiteSeer database of technical documents. Users are then alerted whenever papers that match their queries are put online. SmartSeer has two main design requirements. First, to allow effective information retrieval, it should support rich continuous queries (as opposed to simple keyword searches). Second, to make effective use of donated infrastructure, it should be capable of running on a loosely maintained group of unreliable machines spread across multiple organizations (as opposed to assuming a reliable and tightly coupled distributed system). Existing work on distributed continuous query systems fails at least one ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: INFOCOM
• Authors: Jayanthkumar Kannan, Beverly Yang, Scott Shenker, Puneet Sharma, Sujata Banerjee, Sujoy Basu, Sung-Ju Lee
• Keywords: Communications, Continuous Queries, Continuous Query Systems, INFOCOM 2006, Personalized Continuous Queries