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...
This keynote paper: (1) presents the 21st century vision of computing and identifies various IT paradigms promising to deliver computing as a utility; (2) defines the architecture ...
While many public cloud providers offer pay-as-you-go computing, their varying approaches to infrastructure, virtualization, and software services lead to a problem of plenty. To ...
Ang Li, Xiaowei Yang, Srikanth Kandula, Ming Zhang
Grid computing has been the subject of many large national and international IT projects in the past. However, it seems that the general expectations in Grids have not come true. ...
Uwe Schwiegelshohn, Rosa M. Badia, Marian Bubak, M...
Tag clouds are typically presented so that users can actively utilize community-generated metadata to query a collection. This research investigates whether such keyword clouds, a...