InfoFilter: Supporting quality of service for fresh information delivery |
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Authors: | Ling Liu Calton PU Karsten Schwan Jonathan Walpole |
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Affiliation: | (1) College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 30332-0280 Atlanta, GA, USA;(2) Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology, 97291-1000 Portland, OR, USA |
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Abstract: | With the explosive growth of the Internet and World Wide Web comes a dramatic increase in the number of users that compete
for the shared resources of distributed system environments. Most implementations of application servers and distributed search
software do not distinguish among requests to different web pages. This has the implication that the behavior of application
servers is quite unpredictable. Applications that require timely delivery of fresh information consequently suffer the most
in such competitive environments. This paper presents a model of quality of service (QoS) and the design of a QoS-enabled
information delivery system that implements such a QoS model. The goal of this development is two-fold. On one hand, we want
to enable users or applications to specify the desired quality of service requirements for their requests so that application-aware
QoS adaptation is supported throughout the Web query and search processing. On the other hand, we want to enable an application
server to customize how it should respond to external requests by setting priorities among query requests and allocating server
resources using adaptive QoS control mechanisms. We introduce the Infopipe approach as the systems support architecture and
underlying technology for building a QoS-enabled distributed system for fresh information delivery.
Ling Liu, Ph.D.: She is an associate professor at the College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology. She received her Ph.D. from Tilburg
University, The Netherlands in 1993. Her research interests are in the area of large-scale data intensive systems and its
applications in distributed, mobile, multimedia, and Internet computing environments. Her work has focused on systems support
for creating, searching, manipulating, and monitoring streams of information in wide area networked information systems. She
has published more than 70 papers in internal journals or international conferences, and has served on more than 20 program
committees in the area of data engineering, databases, and knowledge and information management.
Calton Pu, Ph. D.: He is a Professor and John P. Imlay, Jr. Chair in Software at the College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology.
Calton received his Ph.D. from University of Washington in 1986. He leads the Infosphere expedition project, which is building
the system software to support the next generation information flow applications. Infosphere research includes adaptive operating
system kernels, communications middleware, and distributed information flow applications. His past research included operating
system projects such as Synthetix and Microfeedback, extended transaction projects such as Epsilon Serializability, and Internet
data management. He has published more than 125 journal and conference papers, and served on more than 40 program committees.
Karsten Schwan, Ph.D.: He is a professor in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees
from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He directs the IHPC project for high performance cluster computing
at Georgia Tech. His current research addresses the interactive nature of modern high performance applications (i.e., online
monitoring and computational steering), the development of efficient and object-based middleware, the operating system support
for distributed and parallel programs, and the online configuration of applications for distributed real-time applications
and for communication protocols.
Jonathan Walpole, Ph.D.: He is a Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology.
He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Lancaster University, U.K. in 1987. His research interests are in the area
of adaptive systems software and its application in distributed, mobile, multimedia computing environments. His work has focused
on quality of service specification, adaptive resource management and dynamic specialization for enhanced performance, survivability
and evolvability of large software systems, and he has published extensively in these areas. |
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Keywords: | Distributed Information Flow Systems Web Information Systems Quality of Service Adaptive Resource Management |
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