We introduce the Free Factory, a platform for deploying data-intensive web services using small clusters of commodity hardware and free software. Independently administered virtua...
Alexander Wait Zaranek, Tom Clegg, Ward Vandewege,...
Security enforcement framework is an important aspect of any distributed system. With new requirements imposed by SOA-based business models, adaptive security enforcement on the a...
Ivan Djordjevic, Srijith K. Nair, Theodosis Dimitr...
Cache hierarchies have been traditionally designed for usage by a single application, thread or core. As multi-threaded (MT) and multi-core (CMP) platform architectures emerge and...
As computing models change, so too do the demands on storage. Distributed and virtualized systems introduce new vulnerabilities, assumptions, and performance requirements on disks...
Kevin R. B. Butler, Stephen E. McLaughlin, Patrick...
This paper presents MADeM, a multi-modal agent decision making to provide virtual agents with socially acceptable decisions. We consider multi-modal decisions as those that are ab...
Francisco Grimaldo, Miguel Lozano, Fernando Barber