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Querying the World Wide Web
Abstract
The World Wide Web is a large, heterogeneous, distributed collection of documents connected by hypertext links. The most common technology currently used for searching the Web depends on sending information retrieval requests to "index servers". One problem with this is that these queries cannot exploit the structure and topology of the document network. The authors propose a query language, WebSQL, that takes advantage of multiple index servers without requiring users to know about them, and that integrates textual retrieval with structure and topology-based queries. They give a formal semantics for WebSQL using a calculus based on a novel "virtual graph" model of a document network. They propose a new theory of query cost based on the idea of "query locality," that is, how much of the network must be visited to answer a particular query. Finally, they describe a prototype implementation of WebSQL written in Java.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Mendelzon, A. O., Mihaila, G. A., & Milo, T.
- Venue
- Fourth International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Information Systems
- Publisher
- IEEE Comput. Soc. Press
- Published
- 2002-12-24
- Pages
- 80-91
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- W2109660182
- Cited by
- 198
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 15.82
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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