A lot of recent research on content-based P2P searching for file-sharing applications has focused on exploiting semantic relations between peers to facilitate searching. To the be...
Query expansion has been extensively studied as a technique for increasing information retrieval performance. However, due to the volume of documents available on the web, many of ...
This paper focuses on the optimization of the navigation through voluminous subsumption hierarchies of topics employed by Portal Catalogs like Netscape Open Directory (ODP). We ad...
With the growth of the Web, there has been a rapid increase in the number of users who need to access online databases without having a detailed knowledge of the schema or of quer...
In this paper, we propose managing data summaries in unstructured P2P systems. Our summaries are intelligible views with two main virtues. First, they can be directly queried and u...
Rabab Hayek, Guillaume Raschia, Patrick Valduriez,...