Peer-to-peer systems promise inexpensive scalability, adaptability, and robustness. Thus,
they are an attractive platform for file sharing, distributed wikis, and search engines. These …

Document clustering is an important tool for applications such as Web search engines.
Clustering documents enables the user to have a good overall view of the information …

Development of network of nodes connected with their trust values and the propagation of
these trust values to far away nodes are basic operations of the modern day trustworthy …

We consider the problem of searching a document collection using a set of independent
computers. That is, the computers do not cooperate with one another either (i) to acquire …

As distributed systems are getting more and more complex, search facilities for finding
services and data within the system become crucial. Users expect search engines to deal …

Searching the web is critical to the Web's success. However, the frequency of searches
together with the size of the index prohibit a single computer being able to cope with the …

Virtual microscopes are commonly used in medical education. They provide a platform for
distributing whole slide images (WSI) with several GB size to exploring students. Even in …

This thesis presents BubbleStorm, which attempts to bridge the gap between peer-to-peer
and databases. BubbleStorm is a peer-to-peer search system, which solves large-scale …

As distributed systems are getting larger and more complex, search facilities for finding data
and services within the system become crucial. Users expect search engines to deal with …

Virtual microscopy is increasingly used for e-learning and medical online exams at
universities. Traditional client-server systems support up to a few hundred of users …