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3.2 Crawling Web Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35<br />

3.2.1 First-time Downloading <strong>Strategies</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36<br />

3.2.2 <strong>Refresh</strong> <strong>Strategies</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37<br />

3.3 Crawling RSS Feeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38<br />

3.4 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39<br />

4 Best Effort <strong>Refresh</strong> <strong>Strategies</strong> for RSS Feeds 41<br />

4.1 Best Effort <strong>Refresh</strong> Strategy for Unsaturated Feeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42<br />

4.1.1 Utility Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44<br />

4.1.2 Utility Monotonicity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45<br />

4.2 2Steps Best Effort <strong>Refresh</strong> Strategy for Saturated <strong>and</strong> Unsaturated Feeds . 46<br />

4.3 <strong>Refresh</strong> Threshold Adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46<br />

4.4 Experimental Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49<br />

4.4.1 Parameter Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49<br />

4.4.2 Comparing <strong>Strategies</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50<br />

4.4.3 Strategy Effectiveness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51<br />

4.4.4 Strategy Robustness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53<br />

4.5 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53<br />

III Data Dynamics <strong>and</strong> <strong>Online</strong> Change Estimation 55<br />

5 Related Work 57<br />

5.1 Real RSS Feeds Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57<br />

5.2 Change Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59<br />

5.2.1 Homogeneous Poisson Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59<br />

5.2.2 Inhomogeneous Poisson Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59<br />

5.3 <strong>Online</strong> Estimation Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60<br />

5.3.1 Moving Average . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60<br />

5.3.2 Exponential Smoothing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60<br />

5.3.3 Curve Fitting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61<br />

5.4 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61<br />

6 RSS Feeds Evolution Characteristics 63<br />

6.1 Data Set Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63<br />

6.2 Publication Activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65<br />

6.3 Publication Periodicity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65<br />

6.4 Publication Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67<br />

6.5 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69<br />

7 <strong>Online</strong> Change Estimation Techniques 71<br />

7.1 <strong>Online</strong> Change Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71<br />

7.1.1 <strong>Online</strong> <strong>and</strong> Offline Change Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72<br />

7.1.2 Importance of the <strong>Online</strong> Change Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

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