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Web Applications: A Proposal to Improve Response Time and Its Application to MOODLE

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Computer Aided Systems Theory - EUROCAST 2009 (EUROCAST 2009)

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This paper covers some of the most advanced optimization techniques for web servers and web applications applied to a Modular Object Oriented Distance Learning Environment based on PHP 5 and Apache 2.

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References

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  1. Instituto Universitario de Ciencias y Tecnologías Cibernéticas, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, E35017, Spain

    David Horat & Alexis Quesada Arencibia

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  1. Instituto Universitario de Ciencias y Tecnologías Cibernéticas, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Campus de Tafira, 35017, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Spain

    Roberto Moreno-Díaz  & Alexis Quesada-Arencibia  & 

  2. Institute of Systems Science, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Altenbergerstrasse 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Franz Pichler

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Horat, D., Quesada Arencibia, A. (2009). Web Applications: A Proposal to Improve Response Time and Its Application to MOODLE. In: Moreno-Díaz, R., Pichler, F., Quesada-Arencibia, A. (eds) Computer Aided Systems Theory - EUROCAST 2009. EUROCAST 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5717. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04772-5_29

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