Florida International University
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Two-Level Throughput and Latency IO Control for Parallel File Systems
Existing parallel file systems are unable to provide both throughput and response time guarantees for concurrent parallel applications. This limitation prevents different, competing applications from ...
Provided By Florida International University
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Online Resource Management for Data Center with Energy Capping
The past few years have been witnessing a surging demand for cloud computing services, resulting in a huge carbon footprint and making energy cost one of the top operational costs of data centers. Mea...
Provided By Florida International University
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Depth-First Worst-Fit Search Based Multipath Routing for Data Center Networks
Modern Data Center Networks (DCNs) often use multi-rooted topologies, which offer multipath capability, for increased bandwidth and fault tolerance. However, traditional routing algorithms for the Int...
Provided By Florida International University
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Efficient VM Placement With Multiple Deterministic and Stochastic Resources in Data Centers
Virtual Machines (VMs) may significantly improve the efficiency of data center infrastructure by sharing resources of physical servers. This benefit relies on an efficient VM placement scheme to minim...
Provided By Florida International University
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The Design of a Community Science Cloud: The Open Science Data Cloud Perspective
In this paper, the authors describe the design, and implementation of the Open Science Data Cloud, or OSDC. The goal of the OSDC is to provide petabyte-scale data cloud infrastructure and related serv...
Provided By Florida International University
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Self-adaptive Cloud Capacity Planning
The popularity of cloud service spurs the increasing demands of cloud resources to the cloud service providers. Along with the new business opportunities, the pay-as-you-go model drastically changes t...
Provided By Florida International University
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Cloud Application Resource Mapping and Scaling Based on Monitoring of QoS Constraints
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) clouds promise unlimited raw computing resources on-demand. However, the performance and granularity of these resources can vary widely between providers. Cloud comp...
Provided By Florida International University
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Belief-Based Cleaning in Trajectory Sensor Streams
The imprecision in data streams received at the base station is common in mobile wireless sensor networks. The movement of sensors leads to dynamic spatio-temporal relationships among sensors and inva...
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Hiding Trajectory on the Fly
The rapid development in micro-computing has allowed implementations of complex mobile Wireless Sensor Networks (mWSNs). Privacy invasion is becoming an indispensable issue along with the increasing r...
Provided By Florida International University
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Dynamic Block-Level Cache Management for Cloud Computing Systems
Block-level distributed storage systems (e.g., SAN, iSCSI) are commonly used in the emerging cloud computing systems to provide Virtual Machine (VM) storage. They allow fast VM migration across differ...
Provided By Florida International University
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Power and Energy Analysis on Intel Single-Chip Cloud Computer System
Improving the computing performance of the multicore and many-core systems is one of the primary interests to computer architecture researchers currently. Message Passing Interface (MPI) and Multi-cor...
Provided By Florida International University
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ASAP: A Self-Adaptive Prediction System for Instant Cloud Resource Demand Provisioning
The promise of cloud computing is to provide computing resources instantly whenever they are needed. The state-of-art Virtual Machine (VM) provisioning technology can provision a VM in tens of minutes...
Provided By Florida International University
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Using Lightweight Virtual Machines to Run High Performance Computing Applications: The Case of the Weather Research and Forecasting Model
There are many scientific applications that have high performance computing demands. Such demands are traditionally supported by cluster- or Grid-based systems. Cloud computing, which has experienced ...
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Paravirtualization for Scientific Computing: Performance Analysis and Prediction
Resource virtualization technologies have recently increased in popularity. The emergence of cloud computing, which requires provisioning isolated environments on shared resources, is one reason for t...
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Scalable Link-Based Personalization for Ranking in Entity-Relationship Graphs
Authority flow techniques like PageRank and ObjectRank can provide personalized ranking of typed entity-relationship graphs. There are two main ways to personalize authority flow ranking: Node-based p...
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Challenges and Directions in Formalizing the Semantics of Modeling Languages
Developing software from models is a growing practice and there exist many model-based tools (e.g., editors, interpreters, debuggers, and simulators) for supporting model-driven engineering. Even thou...
Provided By Florida International University
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Towards Scalable Application Checkpointing With Parallel File System Delegation
The ever-increasing scale of modern High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems presents a variety of challenges to the Parallel File System (PFS) based storage in these systems. The scalability of appli...
Provided By Florida International University
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PCOUNT: A Power Aware Fetch Policy in Simultaneous Multithreading Processors
The Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) architecture improves the resource efficiency via scheduling and executing concurrent threads in the same core. Moreover, fetch policies are proposed to assign p...
Provided By Florida International University
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A Metamodel for Distributed Ensembles of Virtual Appliances
The authors present their work on modeling Distributed Ensembles of Virtual Appliances (DEVAs) on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) clouds. Designing solutions on IaaS providers require a good unders...
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Estimating Application Cache Requirement for Provisioning Caches in Virtualized Systems
Miss Rate Curves (MRCs) are a fundamental concept in determining the impact of caches on an application's performance. In the authors' research, they use MRCs to provision caches for applications in a...
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Mining Actionable Knowledge for Domain-Driven and Customer-Centric Decision Support
It has been increasingly critical for businesses to become more customer-centric and more responsive for customer needs. The "Voice Of Customer" (VOC in short) is a general term to describe the stated...
Provided By Florida International University
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CosMig: Modeling the Impact of Reconfiguration in a Cloud
Clouds allow enterprises to increase or decrease their resource allocation on demand in response to changes in workload intensity. Virtualization is one of the building blocks for cloud computing and ...
Provided By Florida International University
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Truly Non-Blocking Writes
Writing data within user or operating system memory often encounters the classic read-before-write problem whereby the page written to must first be read from the backing store, effectively blocking t...
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Performance Modeling of Virtual Machine Live Migration
System virtualization is becoming pervasive and it is enabling important new computing diagrams such as cloud computing. Live Virtual Machine (VM) migration is a unique capability of system virtualiza...
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Network Intrusion Detection Design Using Feature Selection of Soft Computing Paradigms
The network traffic data provided for the design of intrusion detection always are large with ineffective information and enclose limited and ambiguous information about users' activities. The authors...
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A Distributed Multimedia Data Management Over the Grid
This paper proposes a distributed multimedia data management architecture, which can efficiently store and retrieve multimedia data across several nodes of a Grid environment. The main components of t...
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Cost Effective Storage Using Extent Based Dynamic Tiering
Multi-tier systems that combine SSDs with SAS/FC and/or SATA disks mitigate the capital cost burden of SSDs, while benefiting from their superior I/O performance per unit cost and low power. Though co...
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Cooperative Virtual Machine Scheduling on Multi-Core Multi-Threading Systems - A Feasibility Study
Virtual Machines (VMs) and Multi-core Multi-threading Micro-Processors (MMMP) are two emerging technologies in software and hardware, respectively, and they are expected to become pervasive on compute...
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RSA Cryptography Acceleration for Embedded System
Cryptography plays an important role for data security and integrity and is widely adopted, especially in embedded systems. On one hand, the people want to reduce the computation overhead of cryptogra...
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Replicating Financial Market Dynamics With A Simple Self-Organized Critical Lattice Model
The authors explore a simple lattice field model intended to describe statistical properties of high frequency financial markets. The model is relevant in the cross-disciplinary area of econophysics. ...
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Virtual Environments: Easy Modeling of Interdependent Virtual Appliances in the Cloud
This paper presents the ideas for modeling groups of interdependent virtual machines in the cloud. The authors call these models virtual environments. This abstraction is built on top of virtual appli...
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Generalized ERSS Tree Model: Revisiting Working Sets
Accurately characterizing the resource usage of an application at various levels in the memory hierarchy has been a long-standing research problem. Existing characterization studies are either motivat...
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Leveraging Cloud Computing in Geodatabase Management
In this paper, the authors leverage Cloud computing technologies in scaling out data management in geographical databases. In particular, they tackle the issue of data indexing in parallel. First, spa...
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Vulnerability Bounds and Leakage Resilience of Blinded Cryptography Under Timing Attacks
The authors establish formal bounds for the number of min-entropy bits that can be extracted in a timing attack against a cryptosystem that is protected by blinding, the state-of-the art countermeasur...
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Efficient and Scalable Method for Processing Top-k Spatial Boolean Queries
In this paper, the authors present a novel method to efficiently process top-k spatial queries with conjunctive Boolean constraints on textual content. Their method combines an R-tree with an inverted...
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On Enabling Real-Time Large-Scale Network Simulation Into the GENI Environment: The PrimoGENI Approach
In recent years, many research efforts have focused on building experimentation platforms where structural changes to future Internet can be implemented and tested. GENI, instantiated by its prototype...
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I/O Deduplication: Utilizing Content Similarity to Improve I/O Performance
Duplication of data in storage systems is becoming increasingly common. The authors introduce I/O Deduplication, a storage optimization that utilizes content similarity for improving I/O performance b...
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STORM: An Approach to Database Storage Management in Data Center Environments
Database storage management at data centers is a manual, time-consuming, and error-prone task. Such management involves regular movement of database objects across physical storage devices in a Storag...
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Application Performance Modeling in a Virtualized Environment
Performance models provide the ability to predict application performance for a given set of hardware resources and are used for capacity planning and resource management. Traditional performance mode...
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Industrial Evidence On Partisan Trade Policy: Tariff Vs. Antidumping
The objective of this paper is to contribute to the literature by analyzing the effect of partisanship on three issues, the tariff level, the use of antidumping relative to tariffs and how these effec...
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Two-Level Throughput and Latency IO Control for Parallel File Systems
Existing parallel file systems are unable to provide both throughput and response time guarantees for concurrent parallel applications. This limitation prevents different, competing applications from ...
Provided By Florida International University
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Online Resource Management for Data Center with Energy Capping
The past few years have been witnessing a surging demand for cloud computing services, resulting in a huge carbon footprint and making energy cost one of the top operational costs of data centers. Mea...
Provided By Florida International University
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ASAP: A Self-Adaptive Prediction System for Instant Cloud Resource Demand Provisioning
The promise of cloud computing is to provide computing resources instantly whenever they are needed. The state-of-art Virtual Machine (VM) provisioning technology can provision a VM in tens of minutes...
Provided By Florida International University
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Cooperative Virtual Machine Scheduling on Multi-Core Multi-Threading Systems - A Feasibility Study
Virtual Machines (VMs) and Multi-core Multi-threading Micro-Processors (MMMP) are two emerging technologies in software and hardware, respectively, and they are expected to become pervasive on compute...
Provided By Florida International University
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Power and Energy Analysis on Intel Single-Chip Cloud Computer System
Improving the computing performance of the multicore and many-core systems is one of the primary interests to computer architecture researchers currently. Message Passing Interface (MPI) and Multi-cor...
Provided By Florida International University
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Truly Non-Blocking Writes
Writing data within user or operating system memory often encounters the classic read-before-write problem whereby the page written to must first be read from the backing store, effectively blocking t...
Provided By Florida International University
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Generalized ERSS Tree Model: Revisiting Working Sets
Accurately characterizing the resource usage of an application at various levels in the memory hierarchy has been a long-standing research problem. Existing characterization studies are either motivat...
Provided By Florida International University
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Energy Proportionality for Storage: Impact and Feasibility
This paper highlights the growing importance of storage energy consumption in a typical data center, and asserts that storage energy research should drive towards a vision of energy proportionality fo...
Provided By Florida International University
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Challenges and Directions in Formalizing the Semantics of Modeling Languages
Developing software from models is a growing practice and there exist many model-based tools (e.g., editors, interpreters, debuggers, and simulators) for supporting model-driven engineering. Even thou...
Provided By Florida International University
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Dynamic Block-Level Cache Management for Cloud Computing Systems
Block-level distributed storage systems (e.g., SAN, iSCSI) are commonly used in the emerging cloud computing systems to provide Virtual Machine (VM) storage. They allow fast VM migration across differ...
Provided By Florida International University
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Using Lightweight Virtual Machines to Run High Performance Computing Applications: The Case of the Weather Research and Forecasting Model
There are many scientific applications that have high performance computing demands. Such demands are traditionally supported by cluster- or Grid-based systems. Cloud computing, which has experienced ...
Provided By Florida International University
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An Interactive and Multimodal Software for Teaching Induction for Computer Science
Induction is a key concept in the teaching and learning of computer science and yet, students have difficulties understanding it. Educators have tried for decades to present proofs by induction to stu...
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Vulnerability Bounds and Leakage Resilience of Blinded Cryptography Under Timing Attacks
The authors establish formal bounds for the number of min-entropy bits that can be extracted in a timing attack against a cryptosystem that is protected by blinding, the state-of-the art countermeasur...
Provided By Florida International University
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On Enabling Real-Time Large-Scale Network Simulation Into the GENI Environment: The PrimoGENI Approach
In recent years, many research efforts have focused on building experimentation platforms where structural changes to future Internet can be implemented and tested. GENI, instantiated by its prototype...
Provided By Florida International University
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PCOUNT: A Power Aware Fetch Policy in Simultaneous Multithreading Processors
The Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) architecture improves the resource efficiency via scheduling and executing concurrent threads in the same core. Moreover, fetch policies are proposed to assign p...
Provided By Florida International University
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RSA Cryptography Acceleration for Embedded System
Cryptography plays an important role for data security and integrity and is widely adopted, especially in embedded systems. On one hand, the people want to reduce the computation overhead of cryptogra...
Provided By Florida International University
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The Impact of Resource Sharing Control on the Design of Multicore Processors
One major obstacle faced by designers when entering the multicore era is how to harness the massive computing power which these cores provide. Since Instructional-Level Parallelism (ILP) is inherently...
Provided By Florida International University
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Belief-Based Cleaning in Trajectory Sensor Streams
The imprecision in data streams received at the base station is common in mobile wireless sensor networks. The movement of sensors leads to dynamic spatio-temporal relationships among sensors and inva...
Provided By Florida International University
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Hiding Trajectory on the Fly
The rapid development in micro-computing has allowed implementations of complex mobile Wireless Sensor Networks (mWSNs). Privacy invasion is becoming an indispensable issue along with the increasing r...
Provided By Florida International University
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Towards Scalable Application Checkpointing With Parallel File System Delegation
The ever-increasing scale of modern High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems presents a variety of challenges to the Parallel File System (PFS) based storage in these systems. The scalability of appli...
Provided By Florida International University
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Performance Modeling of Virtual Machine Live Migration
System virtualization is becoming pervasive and it is enabling important new computing diagrams such as cloud computing. Live Virtual Machine (VM) migration is a unique capability of system virtualiza...
Provided By Florida International University
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Depth-First Worst-Fit Search Based Multipath Routing for Data Center Networks
Modern Data Center Networks (DCNs) often use multi-rooted topologies, which offer multipath capability, for increased bandwidth and fault tolerance. However, traditional routing algorithms for the Int...
Provided By Florida International University
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CosMig: Modeling the Impact of Reconfiguration in a Cloud
Clouds allow enterprises to increase or decrease their resource allocation on demand in response to changes in workload intensity. Virtualization is one of the building blocks for cloud computing and ...
Provided By Florida International University
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The Design of a Community Science Cloud: The Open Science Data Cloud Perspective
In this paper, the authors describe the design, and implementation of the Open Science Data Cloud, or OSDC. The goal of the OSDC is to provide petabyte-scale data cloud infrastructure and related serv...
Provided By Florida International University
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Packet-Mode Asynchronous Scheduling Algorithm for Partially Buffered Crossbar Switches
Traditional crossbar switches use centralized scheduling algorithms with high time complexity. In contrast, buffered crossbar switches are capable of distributed scheduling due to crosspoint buffers, ...
Provided By Florida International University
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A Metamodel for Distributed Ensembles of Virtual Appliances
The authors present their work on modeling Distributed Ensembles of Virtual Appliances (DEVAs) on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) clouds. Designing solutions on IaaS providers require a good unders...
Provided By Florida International University
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Leveraging Cloud Computing in Geodatabase Management
In this paper, the authors leverage Cloud computing technologies in scaling out data management in geographical databases. In particular, they tackle the issue of data indexing in parallel. First, spa...
Provided By Florida International University
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Efficient and Scalable Method for Processing Top-k Spatial Boolean Queries
In this paper, the authors present a novel method to efficiently process top-k spatial queries with conjunctive Boolean constraints on textual content. Their method combines an R-tree with an inverted...
Provided By Florida International University
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Efficient VM Placement With Multiple Deterministic and Stochastic Resources in Data Centers
Virtual Machines (VMs) may significantly improve the efficiency of data center infrastructure by sharing resources of physical servers. This benefit relies on an efficient VM placement scheme to minim...
Provided By Florida International University
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STORM: An Approach to Database Storage Management in Data Center Environments
Database storage management at data centers is a manual, time-consuming, and error-prone task. Such management involves regular movement of database objects across physical storage devices in a Storag...
Provided By Florida International University
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An Information-Theoretical View of Network-Aware Malware Attacks
This paper investigates three aspects: a network vulnerability as the non-uniform vulnerable-host distribution, threats, i.e., intelligent malwares that exploit such a vulnerability, and defense, i.e....
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Ontology-Aware Search on XML-Based Electronic Medical Records
As the use of Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) becomes more widespread, so does the need for effective information discovery on them. Recently proposed EMR standards are XML-based, having as a key ch...
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Space Division Multiple Access Scheme Based on Uniform Latin Squares for Wireless Sensor Networks
A Uniform Latin square of order k = m2 is an k x k square matrix that consists of k symbols from 0 to k-1 such that no symbol appears more than once in any row or in any column. This property is also ...
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Experiences on Processing Spatial Data with MapReduce
The amount of information in spatial databases is growing as more data is made available. Spatial databases mainly store two types of data: raster data (satellite/aerial digital images), and vector da...
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Mining Actionable Knowledge for Domain-Driven and Customer-Centric Decision Support
It has been increasingly critical for businesses to become more customer-centric and more responsive for customer needs. The "Voice Of Customer" (VOC in short) is a general term to describe the stated...
Provided By Florida International University
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Self-adaptive Cloud Capacity Planning
The popularity of cloud service spurs the increasing demands of cloud resources to the cloud service providers. Along with the new business opportunities, the pay-as-you-go model drastically changes t...
Provided By Florida International University
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Cloud Application Resource Mapping and Scaling Based on Monitoring of QoS Constraints
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) clouds promise unlimited raw computing resources on-demand. However, the performance and granularity of these resources can vary widely between providers. Cloud comp...
Provided By Florida International University
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Mobility-Assisted Location Management for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
Vehicular Ad-hoc NETworks (VANETs) are gaining importance for inter-vehicle communication, because they allow for the local communication between vehicles without any infrastructure, configuration eff...
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On Energy-Efficient and Low-Latency Medium Access Control in Wireless Sensor Networks
In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), many applications are delay-sensitive, such as target tracking and forest fire detection, which necessitate a design that can provide delay guarantee. On the other ...
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Challenges and Solutions for Handoff Issues in 4G Wireless Systems an Overview
As the wireless communications technologies evolve dramatically, the recent research focus has shifted to the development of Furth-Generation (4G) mobile systems. Instead of developing a new uniform s...
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