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Authors:
     Guillaume Pierre and
     Maarten van Steen.
Source: Proceedings of the 6th International
Conference on Protocols for Multimedia Systems, LNCS
2213, October 2001.
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table_header("Abstract");
table_spanitem("Replicating Web documents at a worldwide scale can help 
  reduce user-perceived latency and wide-area network traffic. This paper
  presents the design of Globule, a platform that automates all
  aspects of such replication: server-to-server peering negotiation,
  creation and destruction of replicas, selection of the most
  appropriate replication strategies on a per-document basis,
  consistency management and transparent redirection of clients to
  replicas. Globule is initially directed to support standard Web
  documents. However, it can also be applied to stream-oriented
  documents. To facilitate the transition from a non-replicated server
  to a replicated one, we designed Globule as a module for the Apache
  Web server. Therefore, converting Web documents should require no
  more than compiling a new module into Apache and editing a
  configuration file.");
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table_header("Bibtex entry");
table_spanitem("@InProceedings{pierre2001e,
  author       = {Guillaume Pierre and Maarten van Steen},
  title        = {Globule: a Platform for Self-Replicating {W}eb Documents},
  booktitle    = {Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on
                  Protocols for Multimedia Systems},
  pages        = {1--11},
  year         = {2001},
  month        = oct,
  note         = {\url{http://www.cs.vu.nl/~gpierre/publi/GPSRWD_proms2001.html}}
}");
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