: This paper presents the MINERVA project that protoypes a distributed search engine based on P2P techniques. MINERVA is layered on top of a Chord-style overlay network and uses a ...
Matthias Bender, Sebastian Michel, Gerhard Weikum,...
In large-scale distributed information systems, where participants are autonomous and have special interests for some queries, query allocation is a challenge. Much work in this c...
Traditionally, database management systems (DBMSs) have been associated with high-cost, high-quality functionalities. That is, powerful capabilities are provided, but only in respo...
The increased use of ubiquitous computing devices is resulting in networks that are highly mobile, well connected and growing in processing and storage capabilities. The nature of ...
Rudi Ball, James Grant, Jonathan So, Victoria Spur...
Various healthcare areas such as diagnosis, surgery, intensive care and treatment, and patient monitoring in general, would greatly benefit from light, autonomous devices which c...