Measuring the information retrieval effectiveness of Web search engines can be expensive if human relevance judgments are required to evaluate search results. Using implicit user ...
We present WebSOS, a novel overlay-based architecture that provides guaranteed access to a web server that is targeted by a denial of service (DoS) attack. Our approach exploits t...
William G. Morein, Angelos Stavrou, Debra L. Cook,...
Web-services are supported by a complex software infrastructure that must provide a robust service to the client applications. This practical experience report presents a practica...
Web crawlers generate significant loads on Web servers, and are difficult to operate. Instead of repeatedly running crawlers at many "client" sites, we propose a central...
Control methods are being used increasingly for uncertainty management and QoS in modern web server systems. Previous approaches have suggested combined feedforward and feedback c...