MORAD , Olivia

Prefetching is a basic mechanism in the World Wide Web that speculates on the future behaviour of users to avoid the response delays. The relatively new requirement of the instantaneous response in some interactive services like On-Demand applications fuelled the need for ways to represent and reason about the challenging problem of prefetching...

Prefetching control is a vital operation for the On-demand interactive systems where the instantaneous response is the crucial factor for the system success. The controller in such type of interactive system operates in an uncertain environment and makes sequences of decisions with long and short term stochastic effects. The difficulty, then,...