—Cloud computing is an emerging computing paradigm in which resources of the computing infrastructure are provided as services over the Internet. As promising as it is, this para...
To reduce cloud system resource cost, application consolidation is a must. In this paper, we present a novel patterndriven application consolidation (PAC) system to achieve efficie...
—Access control is one of the most important security mechanisms in cloud computing. Attribute-based access control provides a flexible approach that allows data owners to integ...
Yan Zhu, Hongxin Hu, Gail-Joon Ahn, Dijiang Huang,...
—Software license management allows independent software vendors (ISVs) to control the access of their products. It is a fundamental part of the ISVs’ business strategy. A wide...
This paper takes a renewed look at the problem of managing intermediate data that is generated during dataflow computations (e.g., MapReduce, Pig, Dryad, etc.) within clouds. We d...
Steven Y. Ko, Imranul Hoque, Brian Cho, Indranil G...