Friticores: A RSS Feed Monitoring and Dissemination System

RSS feeds is a simple information medium that permits to reduce the information discovery delay. It requires some effort to consumers to find suitable information especially if they ignore providers that could provide it. Providers that lack an established reputation are marginalized by users. This paper presents Friticores, a RSS feed monitoring and dissemination system that addresses both issues. With respect to providers, it stands as a dissemination system that makes each information update visible to all interested users. With respect to consumers, Friticores extends the traditional RSS feed service with filtering service and virtual feeds. The key contributions presented comprise the architecture of the system and the services offered to both consumers and providers, a partitioned persistent representation of feeds, and a distributed index scheme. As for the status of the work, the design is complete and the development of a simulation prototype is ongoing.