Authors:
Luís Veiga
and
Paulo Ferreira
Affiliation:
INESC-ID / IST, Portugal
Keyword(s):
world wide web, dynamic content management, web proxy, distributed cycles, distributed garbage collection.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Internet and Collaborative Computing
;
Object Orientation in Internet and Distributed Computing
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
Abstract:
The weight of dynamically generated content versus static content has progressed enormously. Preserving accessibility to this type of content raises new issues. However, there are no large-scale mechanisms to enforce referential integrity in the WWW. We propose a system, comprised of a distributed web-proxy and cache architecture, to access and automatically manage web content, static and dynamically generated. It is combined with an implementation of a cyclic distributed garbage collection algorithm. It is scalable, correctly handles dynamic content, enforces referential integrity on the web, and is complete with regard to minimizing storage waste.