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Querying the World Wide Web

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Alberto O. Mendelzon,

George A. Mihaila, and

Tova MiloAuthors Info & Claims

DIS '96: Proceedings of the fourth international conference on on Parallel and distributed information systems

December 1996

Pages 80 - 91

Published: 01 December 1996 Publication History

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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.

In this paper we propose a query language, Web-SQL, 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. We give a formal semantics for Web-SQL using a calculus based on a novel “query locality,” that is, how much of the network must be visited to answer a particular query. Finally, we describe a prototype implementation of WebSQL written in Java.

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DIS '96: Proceedings of the fourth international conference on on Parallel and distributed information systems

December 1996

295 pages

ISBN:081867475X

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Wei Sun
Florida International Univ.

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