Showing papers in "Computer Networks in 1998"

TL;DR: Google as discussed by the authors is a prototype of a large-scale search engine which makes heavy use of the structure present in hypertext and is designed to crawl and index the Web efficiently and produce much more satisfying search results than existing systems.

TL;DR: This paper describes an approach for developing adaptive textbooks and presents InterBook—an authoring tool based on this approach which simplifies the development of adaptive electronic textbooks on the Web.

TL;DR: A standardized, statistical way of measuring search engine coverage and overlap through random queries is described that can be implemented by third-party evaluators using only public query interfaces and suggests the size of the static, public Web as of November was over 200 million pages.

TL;DR: The design of Network Dispatcher is described, its performance in the context of http traffic is outlined, and several of its features including high-availability, support for WANs, and client affinity are presented.

TL;DR: The Inquirus meta search engine makes improvements over existing search engines in a number of areas, e.g.: more useful document summaries incorporating query term context, identification of both pages which no longer exist and pages which have no longer contain the query terms.

TL;DR: WebL as discussed by the authors is a high level, object-oriented scripting language that incorporates two novel features: service combinators and a markup algebra, and is used to quickly build and experiment with custom Web crawlers, meta-search engines, page transducers, shopping robots, etc.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a summary of these efforts, highlighting regularities and insights that have been discovered across the variety of access points available for instrumentation, as well as efforts to characterize the entire structure of the Web.

TL;DR: GRiNS as mentioned in this paper is an authoring and presentation environment that can be used to create SMIL-compliant documents and to play SMIL documents created with GRiNS or by hand.

TL;DR: Trace-driven simulation of PSI on two large, independent proxy log data sets, augmented with data from several server logs, shows PSI provides close to strong cache coherency while reducing the request traffic compared to existing cache co herency techniques.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors quantitatively evaluate three iterative algorithms for scheduling cells in a high-bandwidth input-queued ATM switch and show that the implementation complexity of iSLIP is an order of magnitude less than for PIM, making it feasible to implement a 32×32 switch scheduler for iSlIP on a single chip.

TL;DR: This work studies the caching problem for Web documents in a hierarchy of collaborating proxy servers to reduce duplicate caching between a proxy and its parent or higher level proxies in the hierarchy when making a caching decision.

TL;DR: This article proposed a method for automatic hypertext generation that is based on a technique called lexical chaining, which discovers sets of related words in a text and test this method in the context of a question answering task from a database of newspaper articles.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider two testing strategies for finite state machines: port-based and group-based testing, and define a necessary and sufficient condition under which a test sequence of an FSM is synchronizable and show how to generate a set of testers according to a given test sequence.

TL;DR: This paper studies in what order a crawler should visit the URLs it has seen, in order to obtain more "important" pages first, and shows that a Crawler with a good ordering scheme can obtain important pages significantly faster than one without.

TL;DR: The Wolverhampton Web Library 1 (WWLib) as discussed by the authors is a World Wide Web search engine that provides access to UK based information, it was developed in 1995 and was a success but highlighted the need for a much higher degree of automation.

TL;DR: In this paper, a machine learning program is used to infer a decision tree for each search engine, an information-theory criterion being used to direct the inference and to prevent overfitting.

TL;DR: In this paper, the utility of co-operation among intranet proxy caches is investigated in the context of corporate intranets with multiple Web proxies that each serve a set of hosts.

TL;DR: This paper shows how to design a packet switched network, for real-time traffic, such that under full network load: the end-to-end delay bound of a low-rate voice connection is minimized, and the bound on the delay uncertainty or jitter is a fixed network parameter – independent of the network size and the connection rate.

TL;DR: The proposed User-Centered Push approach tracks user activity to determine when the user's interest changes, and has a good chance of delivering information to the user that is both timely and relevant.

TL;DR: A novel personalization method incorporating “information freshness” and that is extremely useful for the ever-growing number of push-type systems is presented, which allows both the personal relevance and the freshness of the information to be displayed.

TL;DR: Sparks as mentioned in this paper allows contributors to edit within the browser; edit in-place in the document; edit narrowly, just one item at a time; edit at a high level of abstraction; and edit collaboratively.

TL;DR: HTML Tidy as mentioned in this paper is a free utility that is able to fix up a wide range of problems and to bring to your attention things that you need to work on yourself in order to improve yourself.

TL;DR: This paper provides a high-level overview of an object-oriented simulation tool developed to model the HFC architecture and key issues related to traffic capacities of the coax are analyzed both by using this tool and by analytical methods.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present schemes that measure the amount of service requested from servers by clients, which are secure and efficient and provide a short proof for the metered data.

TL;DR: What configurability has been induced by user feedback and how tailorability for various degrees of user skills was integrated and implemented in the BSCW shared Workspace System, a Web-based groupware tool are described.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose temporal extensions to HTML that allow seamless integration of synchronized multimedia into WWW documents based on three concepts: hypertime links for temporal composition, common time bases for close lip-sync synchronization between media objects, and dynamic layout.

TL;DR: Shark Search as mentioned in this paper is a refined version of one of the first dynamic Web search algorithms, the "fish search", which was embodied into a dynamic Web site mapping that enables users to tailor Web maps to their interests.

TL;DR: The efficient reservation virtual circuit protocol is a novel connection control protocol designed for constant-rate delay-insensitive traffic in gigabit networks and has the "reservation ahead" feature, which allows a node to calculate the time at which the requested capacity will be available and reserve it in advance, thus avoiding wasteful repetition of the call setup phase.