— In this paper we present a formal description of PROSA, a P2P resource management system heavily inspired by social networks. Social networks have been deeply studied in the la...
Vincenza Carchiolo, Michele Malgeri, Giuseppe Mang...
There has been much interest in both unstructured and structured overlays recently. Unstructured overlays, like Gnutella, build a random graph and use flooding or random walks on ...
Miguel Castro, Manuel Costa, Antony I. T. Rowstron
The focus of this paper is on interoperability issues to achieve data integration in distributed databases for geographic applications. Our concrete application is in the context ...
Isabel F. Cruz, Afsheen Rajendran, William Sunna, ...
Current search engines can hardly cope adequately with fuzzy predicates defined by complex preferences. The biggest problem of search engines implemented with standard SQL is that...
Search computing is a novel discipline whose goal is to answer complex, multi-domain queries. Such queries typically require combining in their results domain knowledge extracted ...