Concept hierarchies greatly help in the organization and reuse of information and are widely used in a variety of applications, such as data warehouses. In this paper, we describe a method for efficiently storing and querying data organized into concept hierarchies and dispersed over a DHT. In our method, peers individually decide on the level of indexing according to the incoming queries. Roll-up and drill-down operations are performed on a per-node basis in order to minimize the number of floods for answering queries on varying levels of granularity. Initial experimental results support this argument on a variety of workloads.
Index Terms:
Concept hierarchies, DHTs, Peer-to-Peer
Citation:
Athanasia Asiki, Katerina Doka, Dimitrios Tsoumakos, Nectarios Koziris, "Support for Concept Hierarchies in DHTs," p2p, pp.121-124, 2008 Eighth International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing, 2008