Kosmix: High-Performance Topic Exploration using the Deep Web

Summary: Kosmix enables high-performance topic exploration over the Deep Web via a federated search engine. It is the first general-purpose topic explorer for the Deep Web, focusing on query transformation and caching to deliver scalable performance. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 10026
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2009
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 12,520 | 14.11%
DOI: 10.14778/1687553.1687581

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Authors

1. Anand Rajaraman (Kosmix Corporation)

BibTeX Citation

@article{rajaraman_vldb09,
        title = {{Kosmix: High-Performance Topic Exploration using the Deep Web}},
        author = {Rajaraman, Anand},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '09},
        doi = {10.14778/1687553.1687581},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1687553.1687581},
        year = {2009}
}

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
117	Querying Heterogeneous Information Sources Using Source Descriptions	1996	VLDB	0.00032192665
263	Reconciling Schemas of Disparate Data Sources: A Machine-Learning Approach	2001	SIGMOD	0.0002305693
298	Answering Queries Using Templates With Binding Patterns (Extended Abstract)	1995	PODS	0.00022138018
340	Crawling the Hidden Web	2001	VLDB	0.00020711119
791	An Interactive Clustering-based Approach to Integrating Source Query Interfaces on the Deep Web	2004	SIGMOD	0.00013995705
1,483	Distributed Search over the Hidden Web: Hierarchical Database Sampling and Selection	2002	VLDB	0.00010633832
1,554	Google’s Deep-Web Crawl	2008	VLDB	0.00010372108
2,372	Instance-based Schema Matching for Web Databases by Domain-specific Query Probing	2004	VLDB	8.6786716e-05

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