Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

3-2005

Abstract

The World Wide Web is a new advertising medium that corporations use to increase their exposure to consumers. Very large websites whose content is derived from a source database need to maintain a freshness that reflects changes that are made to the base data. This issue is particularly significant for websites that present fast-changing information such as stock-exchange information and product information. In this article, we formally define and study the freshness of a website that is refreshed by a scheduled set of queries that fetch fresh data from the databases. We propose several online-scheduling algorithms and compare the performance of the algorithms on the freshness metric. We show that maximizing the freshness of a website is a NP-hard problem and that the scheduling algorithm MiEF performs better than the other proposed algorithms. Our conclusion is verified by empirical results.

Discipline

Databases and Information Systems | Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing

Publication

World Wide Web

Volume

8

Issue

1

First Page

61

Last Page

90

ISSN

1386-145X

Identifier

10.1023/b:wwwj.0000047378.69751.72

Publisher

Springer Verlag

Additional URL

http://doi.org/10.1023/b:wwwj.0000047378.69751.72

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