The explosion of the web has led to a situation where a majority of the traffic on the Internet is web related. Today, practically all of the popular web sites are served from sing...
The TREC .GOV collection makes a valuable web testbed for distributed information retrieval methods because it is naturally partitioned and includes 725 web-oriented queries with ...
Replication and caching mechanisms are often employed to enhance the performance of Web applications. In this article, we present a qualitative and quantitative analysis of state-...
Scaling up web applications requires distribution of load across multiple application servers and across multiple database servers. Distributing load across multiple application se...
The paper formulates and investigates the aggregation problem for synthesized mediators of Web services (SWMs). An SWM is a finite-state transducer defined in terms of templates...