University of Medicine and Pharmacy
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Automated SLA Negotiation Framework for Cloud Computing
A Service Level Agreement (SLA) is a legal contract between parties to ensure the Quality of Service (QoS) is provided to the customers. A SLA negotiation between participants assists in defining the ...
Provided By University of Medicine and Pharmacy
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An Iterative Optimization Framework for Adaptive Workflow Management in Computational Clouds
As more and more data can be generated at a faster-than-ever rate nowadays, it becomes a challenge to processing large volumes of data for complex data analysis. In order to address performance and co...
Provided By University of Medicine and Pharmacy
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CloudSim: A Toolkit for the Modeling and Simulation of Cloud Resource Management and Application Provisioning Techniques
Cloud computing aims to power the next generation data centers and allows dynamic leasing of their server capabilities to third-party applications and end users. It enables providers in efficiently le...
Provided By University of Medicine and Pharmacy
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Resource Provisioning based on Preempting Virtual Machines in Resource Sharing Environments
Resource provisioning is one of the main challenges in large-scale resource sharing environments such as federated Grids. Recently, many resource management systems in these environments have started ...
Provided By University of Medicine and Pharmacy
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Scaling MapReduce Applications Across Hybrid Clouds to Meet Soft Deadlines
Cloud platforms make available a virtually infinite amount of computing resources, which are managed by third parties and are accessed by users on demand in a pay-peruse manner, with quality of servic...
Provided By University of Medicine and Pharmacy
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Design and Development of an Adaptive Workflow-Enabled Spatial-Temporal Analytics Framework
Cloud computing is a suitable platform for execution of complex computational tasks and scientific simulations that are described in the form of workflows. Such applications are managed by Workflow Ma...
Provided By University of Medicine and Pharmacy
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Cost-Effective Provisioning and Scheduling of Deadline-Constrained Applications in Hybrid Clouds
In order to meet distributed application deadlines, Resource Management Systems (RMSs) have to utilize additional resources from public Cloud providers when in-house resources cannot cope with the dem...
Provided By University of Medicine and Pharmacy
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Double Auction-Inspired Meta-Scheduling of Parallel Applications on Global Grids
Meta-schedulers map jobs to computational resources that are part of a grid, such as clusters, that in turn have their own local job schedulers. Existing Grid meta-schedulers either target system-cent...
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Financial Application as a Software Service on Cloud
In this paper, the authors propose a SaaS model that provides service to ordinary investors, unfamiliar with finance models, to evaluate the price of an option that is currently being traded before ta...
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Base Station Cooperation with Noisy Analog Channel Feedback: A Large System Analysis
Channel State Information (CSI) at the Base Stations (BSs) can significantly increase the spectral efficiency in single and multi-cell broadcast channels. Assuming the users learn their direct and int...
Provided By University of Medicine and Pharmacy
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A Coordinator for Scaling Elastic Applications Across Multiple Clouds
Cloud computing allows customers to dynamically scale their applications, software platforms, and hardware infrastructures according to negotiated Service Level Agreements (SLAs). However, resources a...
Provided By University of Medicine and Pharmacy
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Creating Value From Business Analytics Systems: The Impact of Strategy
Business analytics systems can potentially contribute to firm performance and create competitive advantage. However, these benefits do not always follow from investment in business analytics technolog...
Provided By University of Medicine and Pharmacy
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Virtual Machines Networking for Distributed Systems Emulation
Distributed systems are the dominant platform for any application, both in academic and industry. However, testing of applications in such a platform is hard, due to the complexity of the elements tha...
Provided By University of Medicine and Pharmacy
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Optimizing Makespan and Reliability for Workflow Applications With Reputation and Look-Ahead Genetic Algorithm
For applications in large-scale distributed systems, it is becoming increasingly important to provide reliable scheduling by evaluating the reliability of resources. However, most existing reputation ...
Provided By University of Medicine and Pharmacy
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On Robust Stability of the Belief Propagation Algorithm for LDPC Decoding
The exact nonlinear loop gain of the Belief Propagation Algorithm (BPA) in its Log-Likelihood Ratio (LLR) formulation is computed. The nonlinear gains for regular Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) error...
Provided By University of Medicine and Pharmacy
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On the Role of Flows and Sessions in Internet Traffic Modeling: An Explorative Toy-Model
In this paper, the authors present a simple toy-model that is able to explain certain empirical observations reported in a set of previous papers by Hohn et al. about the wavelet spectrum of real traf...
Provided By University of Medicine and Pharmacy
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Meeting Application Constraints Efficiently by Deploying Cloud Resources On-Demand
Cloud computing and Infrastructure-as-a-Service providers, such as Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2), have paved the way towards computing as a utility. The integration of the cloud providers with ...
Provided By University of Medicine and Pharmacy
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Certificate-Based Single Sign-On Mechanism for Multi-Platform Distributed Systems
In this paper the authors propose a single sign-on mechanism based on certificates generated on request for client applications. Single sign-on mechanisms ensure the use of user credentials for access...
Provided By University of Medicine and Pharmacy
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Extending WS-Security to Implement Security Protocols for Web Services
Web services use tokens provided by the WS-Security standard to implement security protocols. The authors propose several extensions to the WS-Security standard, including name types, key and random n...
Provided By University of Medicine and Pharmacy
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A Coordinator for Scaling Elastic Applications Across Multiple Clouds
Cloud computing allows customers to dynamically scale their applications, software platforms, and hardware infrastructures according to negotiated Service Level Agreements (SLAs). However, resources a...
Provided By University of Medicine and Pharmacy
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Double Auction-Inspired Meta-Scheduling of Parallel Applications on Global Grids
Meta-schedulers map jobs to computational resources that are part of a grid, such as clusters, that in turn have their own local job schedulers. Existing Grid meta-schedulers either target system-cent...
Provided By University of Medicine and Pharmacy
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CloudSim: A Toolkit for the Modeling and Simulation of Cloud Resource Management and Application Provisioning Techniques
Cloud computing aims to power the next generation data centers and allows dynamic leasing of their server capabilities to third-party applications and end users. It enables providers in efficiently le...
Provided By University of Medicine and Pharmacy
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Design and Development of an Adaptive Workflow-Enabled Spatial-Temporal Analytics Framework
Cloud computing is a suitable platform for execution of complex computational tasks and scientific simulations that are described in the form of workflows. Such applications are managed by Workflow Ma...
Provided By University of Medicine and Pharmacy
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Cost-Effective Provisioning and Scheduling of Deadline-Constrained Applications in Hybrid Clouds
In order to meet distributed application deadlines, Resource Management Systems (RMSs) have to utilize additional resources from public Cloud providers when in-house resources cannot cope with the dem...
Provided By University of Medicine and Pharmacy
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Financial Application as a Software Service on Cloud
In this paper, the authors propose a SaaS model that provides service to ordinary investors, unfamiliar with finance models, to evaluate the price of an option that is currently being traded before ta...
Provided By University of Medicine and Pharmacy
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Virtual Machines Networking for Distributed Systems Emulation
Distributed systems are the dominant platform for any application, both in academic and industry. However, testing of applications in such a platform is hard, due to the complexity of the elements tha...
Provided By University of Medicine and Pharmacy
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On Robust Stability of the Belief Propagation Algorithm for LDPC Decoding
The exact nonlinear loop gain of the Belief Propagation Algorithm (BPA) in its Log-Likelihood Ratio (LLR) formulation is computed. The nonlinear gains for regular Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) error...
Provided By University of Medicine and Pharmacy
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An Iterative Optimization Framework for Adaptive Workflow Management in Computational Clouds
As more and more data can be generated at a faster-than-ever rate nowadays, it becomes a challenge to processing large volumes of data for complex data analysis. In order to address performance and co...
Provided By University of Medicine and Pharmacy
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Automated SLA Negotiation Framework for Cloud Computing
A Service Level Agreement (SLA) is a legal contract between parties to ensure the Quality of Service (QoS) is provided to the customers. A SLA negotiation between participants assists in defining the ...
Provided By University of Medicine and Pharmacy
-
Meeting Application Constraints Efficiently by Deploying Cloud Resources On-Demand
Cloud computing and Infrastructure-as-a-Service providers, such as Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2), have paved the way towards computing as a utility. The integration of the cloud providers with ...
Provided By University of Medicine and Pharmacy
-
Extending WS-Security to Implement Security Protocols for Web Services
Web services use tokens provided by the WS-Security standard to implement security protocols. The authors propose several extensions to the WS-Security standard, including name types, key and random n...
Provided By University of Medicine and Pharmacy
-
Optimizing Makespan and Reliability for Workflow Applications With Reputation and Look-Ahead Genetic Algorithm
For applications in large-scale distributed systems, it is becoming increasingly important to provide reliable scheduling by evaluating the reliability of resources. However, most existing reputation ...
Provided By University of Medicine and Pharmacy
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On the Role of Flows and Sessions in Internet Traffic Modeling: An Explorative Toy-Model
In this paper, the authors present a simple toy-model that is able to explain certain empirical observations reported in a set of previous papers by Hohn et al. about the wavelet spectrum of real traf...
Provided By University of Medicine and Pharmacy
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Scaling MapReduce Applications Across Hybrid Clouds to Meet Soft Deadlines
Cloud platforms make available a virtually infinite amount of computing resources, which are managed by third parties and are accessed by users on demand in a pay-peruse manner, with quality of servic...
Provided By University of Medicine and Pharmacy
-
Resource Provisioning based on Preempting Virtual Machines in Resource Sharing Environments
Resource provisioning is one of the main challenges in large-scale resource sharing environments such as federated Grids. Recently, many resource management systems in these environments have started ...
Provided By University of Medicine and Pharmacy
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Certificate-Based Single Sign-On Mechanism for Multi-Platform Distributed Systems
In this paper the authors propose a single sign-on mechanism based on certificates generated on request for client applications. Single sign-on mechanisms ensure the use of user credentials for access...
Provided By University of Medicine and Pharmacy
-
Base Station Cooperation with Noisy Analog Channel Feedback: A Large System Analysis
Channel State Information (CSI) at the Base Stations (BSs) can significantly increase the spectral efficiency in single and multi-cell broadcast channels. Assuming the users learn their direct and int...
Provided By University of Medicine and Pharmacy
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Creating Value From Business Analytics Systems: The Impact of Strategy
Business analytics systems can potentially contribute to firm performance and create competitive advantage. However, these benefits do not always follow from investment in business analytics technolog...
Provided By University of Medicine and Pharmacy