Workload characterization is a well-established discipline that plays a key role in many
performance engineering studies. The large-scale social behavior inherent in the …

The unabated growth and increasing significance of the World Wide Web has resulted in a
flurry of research activity to improve its capacity for serving information more effectively. But …

Information retrieval (IR) has changed considerably in recent years with the expansion of the
World Wide Web and the advent of modern and inexpensive graphical user interfaces and …

Liu has written a comprehensive text on Web mining, which consists of two parts. The first
part covers the data mining and machine learning foundations, where all the essential …

The rapid growth of the Web in the past two decades has made it the largest publicly
accessible data source in the world. Web mining aims to discover useful information or …

How fast does the web change? Does most of the content remain unchanged once it has
been authored, or are the documents continuously updated? Do pages change a little or a …

We seek to gain improved insight into how Web search engines shouldcope with the
evolving Web, in an attempt to provide users with themost up-to-date results possible. For …

This text sets out a series of approaches to the analysis and synthesis of the World Wide
Web, and other web-like information structures. A comprehensive set of research questions …

Large scale hierarchical caches for Web content have been deployed widely in an attempt to
reduce delivery delays and bandwidth consumption and also to improve the scalability of …

Many online data sources are updated autonomously and independently. In this article, we
make the case for estimating the change frequency of data to improve Web crawlers, Web …