Abstract. We propose an approach to Distributed Information Retrieval based on the periodic and incremental centralisation of full-text indices of widely dispersed and autonomously...
Fabio Simeoni, Murat Yakici, Steve Neely, Fabio Cr...
As experimental digital library testbeds gain wider acceptance and develop significant user bases, it becomes important to investigate the ways in which users interact with the sys...
Successful applications of digital libraries require structured access to sources of information. This paper presents an approach to extract the logical structure of text document...
XGR (XML Data Grid) and BabelPeers are both data management systems based on distributed hash tables (DHT) that use the Pastry DHT to store data and meta data. XGR is based on the...
Civil emergency management is discussed when more than one aid organisation is involved in solving an emergency problem. This paper analyses interagency cooperation, decision-makin...