Drafting behind Akamai (travelocity-based detouring)

Travelocity Becomes a Travel Retailer

In 2002, Travelocity lost revenue and market share to competition as the business environment changed. Travelocity and Sabre collaborated to develop the enterprise network model (ENM). The ENM combines discrete choice customer modeling with simulation and large-scale optimization to improve Travelocity’s management supplier agreements, customer marketing, and product pricing. The ENM has helped...

Interactive Corpus-based Translation Drafting Tool (translearn)

This paper describes the research and development activities carried out in the framework of the Translearn project. The aim of the project is to build a translation memory tool and the appropriate translation work environment. Translearn's application corpus consists of regulations and directives of the European Union (EU), extracted from the CELEX database, the EUs documentation system on EU ...

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UKAIRO: Internet-Scale Bandwidth Detouring

The performance of content distribution on the Internet is crucial for many services. While popular content can be delivered efficiently to users by caching it using content delivery networks, the distribution of less popular content is often constrained by the bandwidth of the Internet path between the content server and the client. Neither can influence the selected path and therefore clients...

Overlay Networks: An Akamai Perspective

The Internet is transforming every aspect of communication in human society by enabling a wide range of applications for business, commerce, entertainment, news, and social interaction. Modern and future distributed applications require high reliability, performance, security, and scalability, and yet need to be developed rapidly and sustainably at low operating costs. For instance, major e-com...