Many aspects. Overview paper:
Arun Iyengar and Erich Nahum and Anees Shaikh and Renu Tewari ``Enhancing
Web Performance'' Proceedings of the IFIP World Computer Congress August
2002 Montreal, Canada.
http://www.research.ibm.com/people/i/iyengar/wcc02.pdf.
Aspects:
Look at two papers. First uses server prediction for prefetching. Last considers it for pre-calculating dynamic content.
Azer Bestavros. Using Speculation to Reduce Server Load and Service Time on the WWW. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Baltimore, MD , November 1995. ACM.
Slides:
http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~cs535/s03/bestavros:cikm95/
Another paper on similar topic:
V. N. Padmanabhan and J. C. Mogul. Using Predictive Prefetching to
Improve World Wide Web Latency. ACM Computer Communication Review,
26(3), 1996.
http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/ccr/archive/1996/jul96/ccr-9607-mogul-padmanabhan.ps
S. Schechter, M. Krishnan and M. Smith. Using Path Profiles to Predict
HTTP Requests. Seventh International World Wide Web Conference. April
1998. Brisbane, Australia.
http://www7.conf.au/programdraft/fullpapers/1917/com1917.htm
Talk to IBM Research, October 2000:
http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~cew/talks/ibm00/
SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Workshop, November 2001:
http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~cew/talks/imw01.ppt
``A Client-Based Study of Clustered and Distributed Web Content'' by Wills
and John. WPI-CS-TR-02-27. October 2002.
http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~cew/papers/tr02-27.ps