Exploration of Deep Web Repositories

Summary: Tutorial on understanding proprietary interfaces to deep-web repositories and efficiently crawling, sampling, and analyzing their structured or unstructured contents. Emphasizes mining via sampling rather than costly crawling, excluding repository discovery. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 10430
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2011
Pagerank: 5.2427667e-05
Overall Rank: 9,651 | 33.79%
DOI: 10.14778/3402755.3402808

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Authors

1. Nan Zhang (George Washington University)
2. Gautam Das (University of Texas)

BibTeX Citation

@article{zhang_vldb11,
        title = {{Exploration of Deep Web Repositories}},
        author = {Zhang, Nan and Das, Gautam},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '11},
        volume = {4},
        number = {12},
        pages = {1506--1507},
        doi = {10.14778/3402755.3402808},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3402755.3402808},
        year = {2011}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,687	Walk, Not Wait: Faster Sampling Over Online Social Networks	2015	VLDB	6.1211881e-05
8,801	Effective Entity Augmentation By Querying External Data Sources	2023	VLDB	5.3687048e-05

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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

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