MINERVA: Collaborative P2P Search
Summary: MINERVA is a collaborative P2P Web search engine over a DHT, with each peer retaining a personal database and local search facility. A distributed metadata directory selects promising peers for query execution, enabling scalable, decentralized search on commodity machines. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Matthias Bender (Max Planck Institute)
- 2. Sebastian Michel (Max Planck Institute)
- 3. Peter Triantafillou (University of Patras)
- 4. Gerhard Weikum (Max Planck Institute)
- 5. Christian Zimmer (Max Planck Institute)
BibTeX Citation
@article{bender_vldb05,
title = {{MINERVA: Collaborative P2P Search}},
author = {Bender, Matthias and Michel, Sebastian and Triantafillou, Peter and Weikum, Gerhard and Zimmer, Christian},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '05},
year = {2005}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8,337 | Efficient and Decentralized PageRank Approximation in a Peer-to-Peer Web Search Network | 2006 | VLDB | 5.352364e-05 |
| 12,646 | eXO: Decentralized Autonomous Scalable Social Networking | 2011 | CIDR | 4.9793485e-05 |
| 12,711 | Load-Balanced Query Dissemination in Privacy-Aware Online Communities | 2010 | SIGMOD | 4.9793485e-05 |
| 12,882 | XTreeNet: Democratic Community Search | 2008 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-05 |
| 12,907 | P2P Web Search: Make It Light, Make It Fly | 2007 | CIDR | 4.9793485e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 572 | Querying the Internet with PIER | 2003 | VLDB | 0.00016196998 |
| 1,535 | Top-k Query Evaluation with Probabilistic Guarantees | 2004 | VLDB | 0.00010331242 |
| 4,695 | Distributed Query Processing and Catalogs for Peer-to-Peer Systems | 2003 | CIDR | 6.4654203e-05 |
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