Semantics-based pre-fetching for reducing WWW latency

A semantics-based pre-fetching model is presented. This model predicts future requests based on latent intention that the user's current access path implies in semantics, rather than on temporal relationships, which oversomes the limitation of previous pre-fetching approaches. The hidden Markov model (HMM) was employed for mining actual intention from access patterns. Experimental results show that the proposed pre-fetching model has better general performance.