Research Article
Architectures for scalable and flexible Web personalization services
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/AAA-IDEA.2005.2, author={Claudia Canali and Sara Casolari and Riccardo Lancellotti}, title={Architectures for scalable and flexible Web personalization services}, proceedings={1st International Workshop on Advanced Architectures and Algorithms for Internet DElivery and Applications}, publisher={IEEE}, proceedings_a={AAA-IDEA}, year={2006}, month={7}, keywords={Web content adaptation High performance architectures Web content delivery}, doi={10.1109/AAA-IDEA.2005.2} }- Claudia Canali
Sara Casolari
Riccardo Lancellotti
Year: 2006
Architectures for scalable and flexible Web personalization services
AAA-IDEA
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/AAA-IDEA.2005.2
Abstract
The complexity of services provided through the Web is continuously increasing and issues introduced by both heterogeneous client devices and Web content personalization are becoming a major challenge for the Web. Tailoring Web and multimedia resources to meet the user and client requirements opens two main novel issues in the research area of contentdelivery. The content adaptation operations may be computationally expensive, requiring high efficiency and scalability in the Web architectures. Moreover, personalization services introduce security and consistency issues for user profile information management. In this paper, we propose a novel distributed architecture, with four variants, for the efficient delivery of personalized service where the nodes are organized in two levels. We discuss how the architectural choices are affected by security and consistency constraints as well as by the access to privileged information of the content provider. Moreover we discuss performance trade-offs of the various choices.