Towards Informed Web Content Delivery

Towards Efficient Delivery of Dynamic Web Content

Content Delivery and Management

The Web has evolved in the last decade from a mean to distribute content with marginal interest to a major communication media, where critical content and services are delivered to the users. This success was mainly driven by the concerns of content providers about the user-perceived performance of content delivery. When high availability, scalability, and performance are required, a common sol...

Towards a Smart, Self-scaling Cooperative Web Cache

The traditional client/server architecture for web service delivery fails to naturally scale. This results in growing costs to the service provider for powerful hardware or extensive use of Content Distribution Networks. A P2P overlay network provides inherent scalability with multiple benefits to both clients and servers. In this paper, we provide analysis, design and prototype implementation ...

Towards Quality of Service-Awareness of Mobile Healthcare Services

Inevitably healthcare goes mobile – providing m-health applications to users anywhere-anytime, and relying their delivery on the best-effort Quality of Service (QoS) of the underlying wireless networks. We examine a technical and business viability of QoSinformation system (QoSIS), which, based on Mobile Web 2.0 paradigm, predicts the QoS provided by networks available in a given m-health user ...

Towards Supporting Exploratory Search over the Arabic Web Content: The Case of ArabXplore

Due to the huge amount of data published on the Web, the Web search process has become more difficult, and it is sometimes hard to get the expected results, especially when the users are less certain about their information needs. Several efforts have been proposed to support exploratory search on the web by using query expansion, faceted search, or supplementary information extracted from exte...