Title
Online refresh strategies for content based feed aggregation
Abstract
With the rapid growth of data sources, services and devices connected to the Internet, online available web content is getting more and more diverse and dynamic. In order to facilitate the efficient dissemination of evolving and temporary information, many web applications publish their new information as RSS and Atom documents which are then collected and transformed by RSS aggregators like Feedly or Yahoo! News. This article addresses the particular issue of large scale aggregation of highly dynamic information sources by focusing on the design of optimal refresh strategies for large collections of RSS feed documents. First, we introduce two quality measures specific to RSS aggregation which reflect the information completeness and average freshness of the result feeds. Then, we propose a best effort feed refresh strategy that achieves maximum aggregation quality compared with all other existing policies with the same average number of refreshes. This strategy is based on specific online change estimation models developed after a deep analysis of the temporal publication characteristics of a representative collection of real-world RSS feeds. The presented methods have been implemented and tested against synthetic and real-world RSS feed data sets.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/s11280-014-0288-y
World Wide Web
Keywords
Field
DocType
RSS feed,Refresh strategy,Online change estimation,Content based feed aggregation,Dynamic web content,Data quality
Publication,Data mining,Data set,Data quality,Computer science,Web application,Web content,RSS,Publication Characteristics,Database,The Internet
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
18
4
1386-145X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.38
29
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Roxana Horincar1121.32
Bernd Amann242559.99
thierry artieres3918.95