To construct high performance Web servers, system builders are increasingly turning to distributed designs. An important challenge that arises in such designs is the need to direc...
Azer Bestavros, Mark Crovella, Jun Liu, David Mart...
Abstract. The challenge of building consistent, available, and scalable data management systems capable of serving petabytes of data for millions of users has confronted the data m...
Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi, Shyam Antony, Su...
The majority of web pages served today are generated dynamically, usually by an application server querying a back-end database. To enhance the scalability of dynamic content serv...
Khalil Amiri, Sanghyun Park, Renu Tewari, Sriram P...
Broad web search engines as well as many more specialized search tools rely on web crawlers to acquire large collections of pages for indexing and analysis. Such a web crawler may...
Web services provide abstractions for simplifying integration at lower levels of the interaction stacks, they don't yet help simplify integration at higher abstraction levels ...