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The state-of-the-art techniques for processing multi-term queries in P2P environments are query flooding and inverted list intersection. However, it has been shown that due to scalability reasons both methods fail to support full-text search in large scale ...
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Content storage in a distributed collaborative environment uses redundancy for better resilience. This redundancy is either achieved by pure replication or using erasure codes for more efficient utilization of available storage. Increasingly such schemes a ...
