Web monitoring systems report any changes on the target web pages by revisiting them frequently. As they are operated under significant constrains such as network and computing, it is necessary to minimize revisits with minimal delay and maximum coverage. Various statistical scheduling methods were proposed to resolve this problem. However they are static and cannot easily cope with events in the real world. This paper proposes a new scheduling method ...
The major problem of the current WWW technology is that it is based on the 'pull' style of information delivery, where the uploaded information waits for visitors, and not the 'push' style (Franklin and Zdonik 1998), where the new information is delivered to the users when it becomes available. Although there are several research studies focusing on the development of 'push' based information delivery, these studies overlook following two important ...