There is a rapid increase in the size of data centres (DCs) used to provide cloud computing services. It is commonly agreed that not all properties in the middleware that manages D...
Many areas of science are seeing a data deluge coming from new instruments, myriads of sensors and exponential growth in electronic records. We take two examples
Geoffrey Fox, Xiaohong Qiu, Scott Beason, Jong Y. ...
Abstract. Grid computing is based on coordinated resource sharing in a dynamic environment of multi-institutional virtual organizations. Data exchanges, and service allocation, are...
Workflows are modeled as hierarchically structured directed acyclic graphs in which vertices represent computational tasks, referred to as requests, and edges represent precedent c...
Nicolas G. Grounds, John K. Antonio, Jeffrey T. Mu...
Current service-level agreements (SLAs) offered by cloud providers make guarantees about quality attributes such as availability. However, although one of the most important quali...
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 ...
Abstract. Virtualization technology has become commonplace in modern data centers and cluster systems, often referred as “computing clouds”. In particular, the capability of vi...
William Voorsluys, James Broberg, Srikumar Venugop...
We describe a privacy manager for cloud computing, which reduces the risk to the cloud computing user of their private data being stolen or misused, and also assists the cloud comp...