A new aggregation policy for RSS services

Young Geun Han, Sang Ho Lee, Jae Hwi Kim, Yanggon Kim
2008 Proceedings of the 2008 international workshop on Context enabled source and service selection, integration and adaptation organized with the 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2008) - CSSSIA '08  
RSS is the XML-based format for syndication of Web contents, and users aggregate RSS feeds with RSS feed aggregators. There are RSS aggregation policies that help aggregate RSS feeds effectively. In this paper, we first propose an aggregation policy to minimize the number of missing postings within an aggregation. Second, we analyze and compare our aggregation policy with existing aggregation policies. Our analysis reveals that our aggregation policy can reduce approximately 23% of the missing
more » ... osts in comparison with an existing policy while it increases only 6% of the aggregation delay.
doi:10.1145/1361482.1361484 dblp:conf/www/HanLKK08 fatcat:qdntlx7dsfdongikgzwpzc422q