The amount of information available on the Web has increased rapidly, reaching levels that few would ever have imagined possible. We live in what could be called the "informa...
Recent research has shown that server-driven protocols for achieving cache consistency in wide-area network services can perform significantly better than traditional consistency ...
Jian Yin, Lorenzo Alvisi, Michael Dahlin, Arun Iye...
The simplicity of the basic client/server model of Web services led quickly to its widespread adoption, but also to scalability and performance problems. The technological respons...
Micah Beck, Terry Moore, Leif Abrahamsson, Christo...
This paper describes the strengths and weaknesses of two usability assessment methods frequently applied to web sites. It uses case histories of WWW usability studies conducted by...
Clusters of commodity computers are currently being used to provide the scalability required by severalpopular Internet services. In this paper we evaluate an efficient cluster-b...
Enrique V. Carrera, Srinath Rao, Liviu Iftode, Ric...