General-purpose search engines such as AltaVista and Lycos are notorious for returning irrelevant results in response to user queries. Consequently, thousands of specialized, topi...
How to merge and organise query results retrieved from different resources is one of the key issues in distributed information retrieval. Some previous research and experiments su...
Current studies on the storage of XML data are focused on either the efficient mapping of XML data onto an existing RDBMS or the development of a native XML storage. Some native X...
In the recent years, the Web has been rapidly “deepened” with the prevalence of databases online. On this deep Web, many sources are structured by providing structured query i...
Current simulations of P2P-networks don’t take any kind of schemas into account. We present a simulation-framework and first results for query routing based on extensible schema...