The Web is becoming a universal information dissemination medium, due to a number of factors including its support for content dynamicity. A growing number of Web information prov...
Sandeep Pandey, Kedar Dhamdhere, Christopher Olsto...
The exponential growth of the web and the extended use of database management systems in widely distributed information systems has brought to the fore the need for seamless interc...
We present an approach for optimizing the performance of information agents by materializing useful information . A critical problem with information agents, particularly those ga...
We consider the problem of query evaluation in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems that support semantic-based retrieval services. We confine ourselves to the case where the peers employ t...
Current federated systems deploy cost-based query optimization mechanisms; i.e., the optimizer selects a global query plan with the lowest cost to execute. Thus, cost functions in...
Wen-Syan Li, Vishal S. Batra, Vijayshankar Raman, ...