A new form of caching, namely application-level caching, has been recently employed in
web applications to improve their performance and increase scalability. It consists of the …

Applications, deployed over a wide area network (WAN) which may connect across
metropolitan, regional or national boundaries, suffer performance degradation owing to …

Context information is in demand more than ever with the rapid increase in the number of
context-aware Internet of Things applications developed worldwide. Research in context …

Latency and cost of Internet-based services are encouraging the use of application-level
caching to continue satisfying users' demands, and improve the scalability and availability of …

Web prefetching mechanisms have been proposed to benefit web users by hiding the
download latencies. Nevertheless, to the knowledge of the authors, there is no attempt to …

The emergence of smart Wi-Fi access points (AP), which are equipped with huge storage
space, opens a new research area on how to utilize these resources at the edge network to …

In this dissertation, we address the challenges of building a context storage management
system (CSMS) as a core component of the Context as a Service (CoaaS) platform. The …

Web prefetching is a technique aimed at reducing user-perceived latencies in the World
Wide Web. The spatial locality shown by user accesses makes it possible to predict future …

Interactive data visualization and exploration (DVE) applications, such as the one in Figure
1, have rapidly grown in popularity with use cases in numerous sectors [2, 4, 9, 11, 15]. Like …

Software performance affects the user-perceived quality of software. Therefore, it is
important to analyze the performance issues that users are concerned with. In this paper, we …