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      CDNs content outsourcing via generalized communities 

      Katsaros, Dimitrios S.; Pallis, George C.; Stamos, Kostas; Vakali, Athena I.; Sidiropoulos, Antonis; Manolopoulos, Yannis (2009)
      Content distribution networks (CDNs) balance costs and quality in services related to content delivery. Devising an efficient content outsourcing policy is crucial since, based on such policies, CDN providers can provide ...
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      CDNsim: A simulation tool for content distribution networks 

      Stamos, Kostas; Pallis, George C.; Vakali, Athena I.; Katsaros, Dimitrios S.; Sidiropoulos, Antonis; Manolopoulos, Yannis (2010)
      Content distribution networks (CDNs) have gained considerable attention in the past few years. Hence there is need for developing frameworks for carrying out CDN simulations. In this article we present a modeling and ...
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      Exploring content dependencies to better balance performance and freshness in web database applications 

      Papastavrou, Stavros; Chrysanthis, Panos K.; Samaras, George S. (2012)
      In this paper, we present a novel approach for materializing dynamic web pages by exploiting content dependencies and user access patterns. We introduce two new semantic-based data freshness metrics and show that our ...
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      Integrating caching techniques on a content distribution network 

      Stamos, Kostas; Pallis, George C.; Vakali, Athena I. (2006)
      Web caching and replication tune capacity with performance and they have become essential components of the Web. In practice, caching and replication techniques have been applied in proxy servers and Content Distribution ...
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      Locating objects in mobile computing 

      Pitoura, Evaggelia 1967-; Samaras, George S. (2001)
      In current distributed systems, the notion of mobility is emerging in many forms and applications. Mobility arises naturally in wireless computing since the location of users changes as they move. Besides mobility in ...
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      Performance vs. freshness in web database applications 

      Papastavrou, Stavros; Chrysanthis, Panos K.; Samaras, George S. (2014)
      In this work, we present a novel approach for the efficient materialization of dynamic web pages in e-commerce applications such as an online retail store with millions of items, hundreds of HTTP requests per second and ...