Abstract
Classifying Network Architectures for Locating Information Sources
by: Ron Dolin, Divyakant Agrawal, and Amr El Abbadi
Abstract:
This paper presents three broad classes of network architecture that supportdiscovery of information sources. Relevant concepts such as query routing andthe extraction, propagation, and retrieval of metadata are defined. Based onthese concepts, different models of locating and querying relevant informationsources are presented. Finally, we estimate several important characteristicsof these models and classes as well as their expected scalability.
Keywords:
resource discovery, distributed systems, scalability, metadata,internet
Date:
September 1996
Document: 1996-23
