A basic problem in the management of web servers is capacity planning: you want enough capacity to be able to serve peak loads, but not too much so as to avoid excessive costs. It...
Current service-level agreements (SLAs) offered by cloud providers do not make guarantees about response time of Web applications hosted on the cloud. Satisfying a maximum average ...
Although the ever growing Web contain information to virtually every user’s query, it does not guarantee effectively accessing to those information. In many situations, the user...
We argue that while work to optimize the accessibility of the World Wide Web through the publication and dissemination of a range of guidelines is of great importance, there is al...
David Sloan, Andy Heath, Fraser Hamilton, Brian Ke...
Information retrieval system evaluation is complicated by the need for manually assessed relevance judgments. Large manually-built directories on the web open the door to new eval...
Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Abdur Chowdhury...