Adaptive semantics-aware management for web caches and wikis

Abstract

In today's caching and replicated distributed systems, there is a clear need to minimize the amount of data transmitted. This is due to the fact that: i) there is an increase in the size of web objects that can be cached, and the continuous usage increase of these systems makes that a page can be edited and viewed simultaneously by several users. This entails that any modifications to data have to be propagated to a lot of people, thus increasing the use of the network, regardless of the level of interest each one has on such modifications.In this paper, we describe how the current web and wiki systems perform caching and manage replication, and offer an alternative approach by adopting a consistency algorithm, enhanced with user's preferences and notion of interdocument distance, to the web and wiki environments.