Locating Data Sources in Large Distributed Systems

Summary: Distributed catalog framework spans data sources, with no central infrastructure, automatically incorporating new sources. Provides scalable query routing by contacting only relevant servers and adapting to workload, scalable to thousands of sources. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9222
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2003
Pagerank: 7.4565087e-05
Overall Rank: 3,382 | 76.80%
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012722442-8/50082-3

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Leonidas Galanis (University of Wisconsin)
2. Yuan Wang (University of Wisconsin)
3. Shawn R. Jeffery (University of Wisconsin)
4. David J. DeWitt (University of Wisconsin)

BibTeX Citation

@article{galanis_vldb03,
        title = {{Locating Data Sources in Large Distributed Systems}},
        author = {Galanis, Leonidas and Wang, Yuan and Jeffery, Shawn R. and DeWitt, David J.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '03},
        doi = {10.1016/B978-012722442-8/50082-3},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-012722442-8/50082-3},
        year = {2003}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,417	Guaranteeing Correctness and Availability in P2P Range Indices	2005	SIGMOD	6.2255551e-05
9,679	Cooperative XPath Caching	2008	SIGMOD	5.2365126e-05
12,420	Load-Balanced Query Dissemination in Privacy-Aware Online Communities	2010	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,590	WebContent: Efficient P2P Warehousing of Web Data	2008	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,616	The Data Ring: Community Content Sharing	2007	CIDR	5.093636e-05
12,773	An Indexing Framework for Peer-to-Peer Systems	2004	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
164	The Dangers of Replication and a Solution	1996	SIGMOD	0.00027698879
901	Estimating the Selectivity of XML Path Expressions for Internet Scale Applications	2001	VLDB	0.00013334162
3,129	Structure and Value Synopses for XML Data Graphs	2002	VLDB	7.7256156e-05
3,465	LH* — Linear Hashing for Distributed Files	1993	SIGMOD	7.3910846e-05
4,594	Distributed Query Processing and Catalogs for Peer-to-Peer Systems	2003	CIDR	6.6138159e-05

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