In critical energy infrastructure sectors (e.g. electric power generation, natural gas transportation, oil refining capacity) maintaining certain level of excess capacity is soci...
The practice of having PhDs employed by the university that trained them, commonly called "academic inbreeding," has long been assumed to have a damaging effect on schol...
Privacy has been acknowledged to be a critical requirement for many business environments. A variety of uncertainty and mutability poses challenges when sharing resources must happ...
Making a city “smart” is emerging as a strategy to mitigate the problems generated by the urban population growth and rapid urbanization. Yet little academic research has spar...
e network, similar to CPU and memory, is a critical and shared resource in the cloud. However, unlike other resources, it is neither shared proportionally to payment, nor do cl...