PIPES is a flexible and extensible infrastructure providing fundamental building blocks to implement a data stream management system (DSMS). It is seamlessly integrated into the J...
The Distributed Information Search COmponent (Disco) is a prototype heterogeneous distributed database that accesses underlying data sources. The Disco prototype currently focuses...
This paper presents an architecture that helps users to collect and qualify meta-information about web resources within a weblog and then share them with a group of people. Our arc...
— The ubiquity of mobile devices has led to a rising demand for location-based services and applications. A major part of these services is based on the location-detection capabi...
We study efficient query processing in distributed web search engines with global index organization. The main performance bottleneck in this case is due to the large amount of i...