A challenging question is how XML can be used to support distributed databases. This leads to the problem of how to obtain a suitable, cost-efficient distribution design for XML do...
We consider a network of autonomous peers forming a logically global but physically distributed search engine, where every peer has its own local collection generated by independe...
Josiane Xavier Parreira, Sebastian Michel, Gerhard...
Background: The development of e-Science presents a major set of opportunities and challenges for the future progress of biological and life scientific research. Major new tools a...
Content-based full-text search is a challenging problem in Peer-toPeer (P2P) systems. Traditional approaches have either been centralized or use flooding to ensure accuracy of th...
Given a large audio database of music recordings, the goal of classical audio identification is to identify a particular audio recording by means of a short audio fragment. Even th...