Data fragmentation offers various attractive alternatives to organizing and managing data, and presents interesting characteristics that may be exploited for efficient processing...
In this paper, we describe the design and initial implementation of a geographic search engine prototype for Germany, based on a large crawl of the de domain. Geographic search en...
Alexander Markowetz, Yen-Yu Chen, Torsten Suel, Xi...
Efficient querying XML documents is an increasingly important issue considering the fact that XML becomes the de facto standard for data representation and exchange over the Web,...
This document presents the JXP algorithm for dynamically and collaboratively computing PageRank-style authority scores of Web pages distributed in a P2P network. In the architectu...
Semantic mapping is one of the important components underlying the data sharing systems. As is known, constructing and maintaining such mappings both are necessary yet extremely h...