XTreeNet: Democratic Community Search

Summary: XTreeNet enables democratic community search without centralizing data: expressive full-text queries are disseminated across publishers, who retain and process their own documents. It efficiently identifies relevant publishers in a virtual global collection and returns matching results. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 9968
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2008
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 12,592 | 13.61%
DOI: 10.14778/1454159.1454197

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Authors

1. Emiran Curtmola (University of California San Diego)
2. Alin Deutsch (University of California San Diego)
3. Dionysios Logothetis (University of California San Diego)
4. K.K. Ramakrishnan (AT&T)
5. Divesh Srivastava (AT&T)
6. Kenneth Yocum (University of California San Diego)

BibTeX Citation

@article{curtmola_vldb08,
        title = {{XTreeNet: Democratic Community Search}},
        author = {Curtmola, Emiran and Deutsch, Alin and Logothetis, Dionysios and Ramakrishnan, K.K. and Srivastava, Divesh and Yocum, Kenneth},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '08},
        volume = {1},
        number = {1},
        pages = {1448--1449},
        doi = {10.14778/1454159.1454197},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1454159.1454197},
        year = {2008}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
12,420	Load-Balanced Query Dissemination in Privacy-Aware Online Communities	2010	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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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
6,080	Large Scale P2P Distribution of Open-Source Software	2007	VLDB	5.9850223e-05
6,081	MINERVA: Collaborative P2P Search	2005	VLDB	5.9850223e-05
6,150	Flexible and Efficient XML Search with Complex Full-Text Predicates	2006	SIGMOD	5.9579906e-05

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