Future Directions and Research Problems in the World Wide Web

Summary: Argues databases must tackle WWW‑scale heterogeneous and rapidly changing data to improve web search, integration, and information quality. Outlines DB directions—scalable indexing/querying, metadata/provenance, crawl/update, and quality/ranking—posing open problems for the DB community. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 1090
Venue: PODS
Year: 1996
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 14,213 | 2.49%
DOI: 10.1145/237661.237713

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Authors

1. Udi Manber (University of Arizona)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{manber_pods96,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '96},
        title = {{Future Directions and Research Problems in the World Wide Web}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/237661.237713},
        doi = {10.1145/237661.237713},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Manber, Udi},
        year = {1996}
}

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