The user observed latency of retrieving Web documents is one of
limiting factors while using the Internet as an information data source.
Prefetching became important technique to reduce the average Web access
latency. Existing prefetching methods are based predominantly on URL graphs.
They use the graphical nature of HTTP links to determine the possible paths
through a hypertext system. Although the URL graph-based approaches are
effective in the prefetching of frequently accessed documents, few of them can
pre-fetch those URLs that are rarely visited. In our paper we aim to propose a
new prefetching algorithm that would increase the efficiency of Web
prefetching and that will embody the new demands for Web personalisation and
Web search assistance. The aim of the research is to design a system for web
page prefetching. The system should use user’s link path history in combination
with the semantic path history. To enable this, semantically annotated web
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