AJAX: Highly Interactive Web Applications
http://www.psychemorphic.com/papers/AJAX.pdf

Giglio, Jason
Psychemorphic
2006

Abstract:

AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. AJAX has recently been gaining attention as a way to make web applications more interactive. While it can reduce apparent latency between user interaction and application response, it can cause user interface, maintainability, and accessibility issues.