Web-database systems are nowadays an integral part of everybody's life, with applications ranging from monitoring/trading stock portfolios, to personalized blog aggregation a...
From personal software to advanced systems, caching mechanisms have steadfastly been a ubiquitous means for reducing workloads. It is no surprise, then, that under the grid and clu...
Abstract. Privacy becomes a major concern for both customers and enterprises in today’s corporate marketing strategies, many research efforts have been put into developing new p...
— Most information and services required today by designers will soon become available as documents distributed in a wide area hypermedia network. New integration services are re...
Web search engines crawl the web to fetch the data that they index. In this paper we re-examine that need, and evaluate the network costs associated with data acquisition, and alt...
Nick Craswell, Francis Crimmins, David Hawking, Al...