In this paper we study the node distribution of an Rtree storing region data, like for instance islands, lakes or human-inhabited areas. We will show that real region datasets are...
Structured P2P systems in the form of distributed hash tables (DHT) are a promising approach for building massively distributed data management platforms. However, for many applic...
There are major trends to advance the functionality of search engines to a more expressive semantic level. This is enabled by the advent of knowledge-sharing communities such as W...
Abstract. Thanks to the recent explosive progress of WWW (WorldWide Web), we can easily access a large number of images from WWW. There are, however, no established methods to make...
We report on the results of a series of experiments with a prototype text retrieval system which uses relatively advanced natural language processing techniques in order to enhanc...