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Exploring Content Dependencies to Better Balance Performance and Freshness in Web Database Applications

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Web Information Systems Engineering - WISE 2012 (WISE 2012)

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In this paper, we present a novel approach for materializing dynamic web pages by exploiting content dependencies and user access patterns. We introduce two new semantic-based data freshness metrics and show that our approach out-performs traditional balancing QoS-QoD approaches in terms of server throughput, increased data freshness and scalability. In our evaluation we use a real-world experimental system that resembles an online bookstore web database application.

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  1. Dept. of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

    Stavros Papastavrou & George Samaras

  2. Dept. of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Panos K. Chrysanthis

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  1. School of Computer Science, Fudan University, 825 Zhangheng Rd., Shanghai, 201203, China

    X. Sean Wang

  2. Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering, Science and Engineering Offices, The University of Illinois at Chicago, 851 South Morgan Street (M/C 152), 60607-7053, Chicago, Illinois, USA

    Isabel Cruz

  3. Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens, GR15784, Ilisia, Athens, Greece

    Alex Delis

  4. Centre for Applied Informatics, Victoria University, PO Box 14428, 8001, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Guangyan Huang

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Papastavrou, S., Chrysanthis, P.K., Samaras, G. (2012). Exploring Content Dependencies to Better Balance Performance and Freshness in Web Database Applications. In: Wang, X.S., Cruz, I., Delis, A., Huang, G. (eds) Web Information Systems Engineering - WISE 2012. WISE 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7651. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35063-4_37

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