Finding information in a peer-to-peer system currently requires either a costly and vulnerable central index, or flooding the network with queries. In this paper we introduce the...
This paper proposes a semantic-based P2P resource organization model R-Chord by incorporating the Resource Space Model (RSM), the P2P Semantic Link Network Model (P2PSLN) and the ...
Databases are increasingly being used to store information covered by heterogeneous policies, which require support for access control with great flexibility. This has led to incr...
We describe and evaluate the performance of a parallel search engine that is able to cope efficiently with concurrent read/write operations. Read operations come in the usual form ...
One useful feature that is missing from today’s database systems is an explain capability that enables users to seek clarifications on unexpected query results. There are two t...