MoBIoS is a specialized database management system whose storage manager is based on metric-space indexing, and whose query language entails biological data types. When relational...
Peer-to-peer systems offer attractive system management properties, including the ability of components that join the network to self-organize; scalability up to tens of thousands...
Abstract. Current peer-to-peer (p2p) systems place the burden of application-level query execution on the application developer. Not only do application developers lack the experti...
Search computing is a novel discipline whose goal is to answer complex, multi-domain queries. Such queries typically require combining in their results domain knowledge extracted ...
We study the scalable management of XML data in P2P networks based on distributed hash tables (DHTs). We identify performance limitations in this context, and propose an array of t...