Organising large-scale Web information retrieval systems into hierarchies of topic-specific search resources can improve both the quality of results and the efficient use of com...
Web caching keeps single Web objects ready somewhere in caches in the user-to-server path, whereas database caching uses fullfledged database management systems as caches to adapt...
Decentralized and unstructured peer-to-peer (P2P) networks such as Gnutella are attractive for large-scale information retrieval and search systems due to scalability, fault-tolera...
An increasing percentage of the data needed by business applications is being generated in XML format. Storing the XML in its native format will facilitate new applications that e...
Alan Halverson, Vanja Josifovski, Guy M. Lohman, H...
— Many novel spatio-temporal applications deal with moving objects. In such environments, a database typically maintains the initial position and the moving function for each obj...
Marios Hadjieleftheriou, George Kollios, Vassilis ...