Peer-to-Peer Query Processing over Multidimensional Data

• Main Authors: Vlachou, Akrivi (Author), Doulkeridis, Christos (Author), Nørvåg, Kjetil (Author), Kotidis, Yannis (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2012.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Computer Science,
• Subjects: Engineering.; Computer organization.; Electrical engineering.; Communications Engineering, Networks.; Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks.

Applications that require a high degree of distribution and loosely-coupled connectivity are ubiquitous in various domains, including scientific databases, bioinformatics, and multimedia retrieval. In all these applications, data is typically voluminous and multidimensional, and support for advanced...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Peer-to-Peer Systems
• System Overview
• Query Operators
• Similarity Search in Metric Spaces
• Subspace Skyline Queries
• Top-k queries
• Summary
• References.