Abstract. We consider a collaboration of peers autonomously crawling the Web. A pivotal issue when designing a peer-to-peer (P2P) Web search engine in this environment is query rou...
Sebastian Michel, Matthias Bender, Peter Triantafi...
Recognizing the alternative ways people use to reference an entity, is important for many Web applications that query structured data. In such applications, there is often a mismat...
This paper presents P3Q, a fully decentralized gossip-based protocol to personalize query processing in social tagging systems. P3Q dynamically associates each user with social ac...
The development of location-based services and advances in the field of mobile computing have motivated an intensive research effort devoted to the efficient processing of locati...
Sergio Ilarri, Antonio Corral, Carlos Bobed, Eduar...
Privacy is a serious concern when microdata need to be released for ad hoc analyses. The privacy goals of existing privacy protection approaches (e.g., -anonymity and -diversity) ...
Qing Zhang, Nick Koudas, Divesh Srivastava, Ting Y...