This chapter discusses content-based recommendation systems, i.e., systems that recommend an item to a user based upon a description of the item and a profile of the user’s inter...
— Content Delivery Overlays improves end-user performance by replicating Web contents on a group of geographically distributed sites interconnected over the Internet. However, wi...
The presence of replicas or near-replicas of documents is very common on the Web. Documents may be replicated completely or partially for different reasons (versions, mirrors, etc...
Ernesto Di Iorio, Michelangelo Diligenti, Marco Go...
Social news websites have gained significant popularity over the last few years. The participants of such websites are not only allowed to share news links but also to annotate, ...
We consider a cluster architecture in which dynamic content is generated by a database back-end and a collection of Web and application server front-ends. We study the effect of t...