An architecture for xml information retrieval in a peer-to-peer environment
Judith Winter, Oswald Drobnik · 2007
XML has become a widely accepted standard for modelling, storing, and exchanging structured documents. Taking advantage of the document structure can result in improving the retrieval performance of XML-documents notably. A growing number of these documents are stored in Peer-to-Peer networks, which are promising self-organizing infrastructures. Documents are distributed over the Peer-to-Peer network by either being stored locally on individual peers or by being assigned to collections such as Digital Libraries. Current search methods for XML-documents in Peer-to-Peer networks lack the use of Information Retrieval techniques for vague queries and relevance detection.