This book can be presented in two different ways. Firstly, it introduces a particular
methodology to build adaptive Web sites and secondly, it presents the main concepts …

Web prefetching techniques have been pointed out to be especially important to reduce
perceived web latencies and, consequently, an important amount of work can be found in …

In the Web environment, user identification is becoming a major challenge for admission
control systems on high traffic sites. When a web server is overloaded there is a significant …

In the Internet, where millions of users are a click away from your site, being able to
dynamically classify the workload in real time, and predict its short term behavior, is crucial …

Web Proxy caching system is an intermediary between the Web users and servers that try to
alleviate the loads on the origin servers by caching particular Web objects and behaves as …

This paper proposed a three-tier Proxy Agent working as a mediator between the users and
the backend process of a FAQ system. The first tier makes use of an improved sequential …

The basics of web prefetching are to preprocess user requests before they are actually
demanded. Therefore, the time that the user must wait for the requested documents can be …

The Internet has become an important medium for effective marketing and efficient
operations for many institutions. Visitors of a particular web site leave behind valuable …

Most of the research attempts to improve Web prefetching techniques have focused on the
prediction algorithm with the objective of increasing its precision or, in the best case, to …

As an increasing number of users access information on the World Wide Web, there is a
opportunity to improve well known strategies for Web prefetching, dynamic user modeling …