An Adaptive Mechanism for Web Browser Cache Management

Current proxy server and client caching techniques do not incorporate the dynamics of document selection and modification. The adaptive model proposed in the article uses document life histories to optimize cache performance. We briefly describe existing "semi intelligent" caching strategies and then propose a mechanism for adaptive cache management. Our approach attempts to improve cache performance by modeling document life histories to determine usefulness. We use damped exponential smoothing to ensure an accurate yet responsive model of document dynamics.

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