A goal of the Geosciences Network (GEON) is to develop cyber-infrastructure that will allow earth scientists to discover access, integrate and disseminate knowledge in distributed...
Leonardo Salayandia, Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, Ann ...
Current IT application domains such as web services and autonomic computing call for highly flexible systems, able to automatically adapt to changing operational environments as w...
Loris Penserini, Anna Perini, Angelo Susi, John My...
This paper develops analytical models to predict the throughput and the response time of a replicated database using measurements of the workload on a standalone database. These m...
Sameh Elnikety, Steven G. Dropsho, Emmanuel Cecche...
CAPTCHAs protect online resources and services from automated access. From an attacker’s point of view, they are typically perceived as an annoyance that prevents the mass creat...
Manuel Egele, Leyla Bilge, Engin Kirda, Christophe...
Systems connected to the Internet are highly susceptible to denial-of-service attacks that can compromise service availability, causing damage to customers and providers. Due to e...