Special Section: Scalable information systems

The Second International Conference on Scalable Information Systems (INFOSCALE 2007), was organized on the development of distributed and peer-to-peer (P2P) systems. A paper was presented on a system named 'OntoZilla' that combines ontology and P2P systems. A paper was presented on a Distributed Incremental Nearest Neighbor algorithm (DINN) for finding closest objects in networked computer nodes. A paper was presented that proposed a Swift tree structure for multidimensional Data Indexing (SDI), a swift index scheme with simple tree structure for multidimensional data indexing in large-scale distributed systems. A paper was presented on a query-driven indexing/retrieval strategy for efficient full text retrieval from large document collections distributed within a structured P2P network. A paper was presented on contention-based performance evaluation of P2P search techniques.