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CCS
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Hey, you, get off of my cloud: exploring information leakage in third-party compute clouds
Third-party cloud computing represents the promise of outsourcing as applied to computation. Services, such as Microsoft’s Azure and Amazon’s EC2, allow users to instantiate v...
Thomas Ristenpart, Eran Tromer, Hovav Shacham, Ste...
ICAIL
2003
ACM
14 years 19 days ago
Towards a Computational Account of Persuasion in Law
In this paper we attempt to give an account of reasoning with legal cases contextualised within a general theory of persuasion in practical reasoning. We begin by presenting our g...
Katie Greenwood, Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Peter M...
HPDC
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Early observations on the performance of Windows Azure
A significant open issue in cloud computing is performance. Few, if any, cloud providers or technologies offer quantitative performance guarantees. Regardless of the potential adv...
Zach Hill, Jie Li, Ming Mao, Arkaitz Ruiz-Alvarez,...
SOCIALCOM
2010
13 years 5 months ago
On the Navigability of Social Tagging Systems
It is a widely held belief among designers of social tagging systems that tag clouds represent a useful tool for navigation. This is evident in, for example, the increasing number ...
Denis Helic, Christoph Trattner, Markus Strohmaier...
WSCG
2004
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13 years 8 months ago
Diffusion and Multiple Anisotropic Scattering for Global Illumination in Clouds
The diffusion method is a good approximation inside the dense core of a cloud, but not at the more tenuous boundary regions. Also, it breaks down in regions where the density of s...
Nelson Max, Greg Schussman, Ryo Miyazaki, Kei Iwas...