Large inverted indices are by now common in the construction of web-scale search engines. For faster access, inverted indices are indexed internally so that it is possible to skip...
Peer-to-peer systems offer an efficient means for sharing data among autonomous nodes. A central issue is locating the nodes with data matching a user query. A decentralized solut...
Document clustering techniques mostly rely on single term analysis of the document data set, such as the Vector Space Model. To better capture the structure of documents, the unde...
Abstract. Searching in metric spaces is a very active field since it offers methods for indexing and searching by similarity in collections of unstructured data. These methods sele...
E-Services are becoming as promising technology for the effective automation of application integration across Web. They build upon XML, as data format for exchanging messages bet...