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- research-articleFebruary 2020
Compile-time detection of machine image sniping
ASE '19: Proceedings of the 34th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software EngineeringPages 1256–1258https://doi.org/10.1109/ASE.2019.00154Machine image sniping is a difficult-to-detect security vulnerability in cloud computing code. When programmatically initializing a machine, a developer specifies a machine image (operating system and file system). The developer should restrict the ...
- research-articleFebruary 2016
Automated configuration support for infrastructure migration to the cloud
Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Volume 55, Issue CPages 200–212https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2015.03.006With an increasing number of cloud computing offerings in the market, migrating an existing computational infrastructure to the cloud requires comparison of different offers in order to find the most suitable configuration. Cloud providers offer many ...
- articleOctober 2014
How Small and Medium Enterprises SMEs Should Bid for Spot Instances of Amazon's EC2 Cloud
International Journal of Business Data Communications and Networking (IJBDCN-IGI), Volume 10, Issue 4Pages 43–59https://doi.org/10.4018/IJBDCN.2014100103In cloud service provisioning, spot instances are spare slots for which it has no pre-booking, unlike reserved or on-demand instances for which a cloud service provider CSP has a priori booking. CSPs like Amazon prefer spot instance approach to sell ...
- articleJanuary 2014
A Framework for Amazon EC2 Bidding Strategy under SLA Constraints
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Volume 25, Issue 1Pages 2–11https://doi.org/10.1109/TPDS.2013.15With the recent introduction of Spot Instances in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), users can bid for resources and, thus, control the balance of reliability versus monetary costs. Mechanisms and tools that deal with the cost-reliability tradeoffs ...
- research-articleOctober 2013
Next stop, the cloud: understanding modern web service deployment in EC2 and azure
IMC '13: Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Internet measurement conferencePages 177–190https://doi.org/10.1145/2504730.2504740An increasingly large fraction of Internet services are hosted on a cloud computing system such as Amazon EC2 or Windows Azure. But to date, no in-depth studies about cloud usage by Internet services has been performed. We provide a detailed measurement ...
- ArticleJuly 2013
Diagnosing Data Center Behavior Flow by Flow
ICDCS '13: Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE 33rd International Conference on Distributed Computing SystemsPages 11–20https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDCS.2013.18Multi-tenant data centers are complex environments, running thousands of applications that compete for the same infrastructure resources and whose behavior is guided by (sometimes) divergent configurations. Small workload changes or simple operator ...
- ArticleMarch 2013
Let's Trade Futures! a Novel Approach for Cloud Computing Resource Planning and Management
SOSE '13: Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Seventh International Symposium on Service-Oriented System EngineeringPages 145–149https://doi.org/10.1109/SOSE.2013.42Resource planning is the greatest challenge cloud computing service providers face, because it is difficult to predict future resource demands. Fluctuation in demand coupled with inadequate resource planning causes over-or under-utilization of many ...
- ArticleNovember 2012
Elastic JADE: Dynamically Scalable Multi Agents Using Cloud Resources
CGC '12: Proceedings of the 2012 Second International Conference on Cloud and Green ComputingPages 167–172https://doi.org/10.1109/CGC.2012.60Multi-agent systems have been applied to integrate heterogeneous information, to work on the behalf of users and to provide decision support in challenging environments. As this technology continues to develop, the numbers of agents that comprise a ...
- ArticleJune 2012
Expertus: A Generator Approach to Automate Performance Testing in IaaS Clouds
CLOUD '12: Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE Fifth International Conference on Cloud ComputingPages 115–122https://doi.org/10.1109/CLOUD.2012.98Cloud computing is an emerging technology paradigm that revolutionizes the computing landscape by providing on-demand delivery of software, platform, and infrastructure over the Internet. Yet, architecting, deploying, and configuring enterprise ...
- ArticleJune 2012
Towards Optimal Bidding Strategy for Amazon EC2 Cloud Spot Instance
CLOUD '12: Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE Fifth International Conference on Cloud ComputingPages 91–98https://doi.org/10.1109/CLOUD.2012.134With the recent introduction of Spot Instances in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), users can bid for resources and thus control the balance of reliability versus monetary costs. Mechanisms and tools that deal with the cost-reliability trade-offs ...
- ArticleMay 2012
Conservative Distributed Discrete Event Simulation on Amazon EC2
CCGRID '12: Proceedings of the 2012 12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (ccgrid 2012)Pages 853–860https://doi.org/10.1109/CCGrid.2012.73A discrete-event simulator's ability to distribute the execution of a simulation model allows one to deal with the memory limitations of a single computational resource, and thereby increase the scale or level of detail at which models can be studied. ...
- research-articleNovember 2011
MATE-EC2: a middleware for processing data with AWS
MTAGS '11: Proceedings of the 2011 ACM international workshop on Many task computing on grids and supercomputersPages 59–68https://doi.org/10.1145/2132876.2132889Recently, there has been growing interest in using Cloud resources for a variety of high performance and data-intensive applications. While there is currently a number of commercial Cloud service providers, Amazon Web Services (AWS) appears to be the ...
- ArticleJuly 2011
Variations in Performance and Scalability When Migrating n-Tier Applications to Different Clouds
CLOUD '11: Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE 4th International Conference on Cloud ComputingPages 73–80https://doi.org/10.1109/CLOUD.2011.43The increasing popularity of computing clouds continues to drive both industry and research to provide answers to a large variety of new and challenging questions. We aim to answer some of these questions by evaluating performance and scalability when ...
- research-articleJune 2011
Experiences using cloud computing for a scientific workflow application
ScienceCloud '11: Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Scientific cloud computingPages 15–24https://doi.org/10.1145/1996109.1996114Clouds are rapidly becoming an important platform for scientific applications. In this paper we describe our experiences running a scientific workflow application in the cloud. The application was developed to process astronomy data released by the ...
- research-articleJune 2010
Up in the air: adventures in serving geospatial data using open source software and the cloud
COM.Geo '10: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference and Exhibition on Computing for Geospatial Research & ApplicationArticle No.: 35, Pages 1–4https://doi.org/10.1145/1823854.1823894In recent years GIS and web technologies have advanced to allow the sharing of geospatial data on the web. Land management agencies sometimes have a need to simply post GIS datasets on the web and don't always require advanced GIS modeling capabilities ...
- research-articleJune 2010
Self-provisioned hybrid clouds
ICAC '10: Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Autonomic computingPages 161–168https://doi.org/10.1145/1809049.1809075Virtual Organizations are dynamic entities that consist of individuals and/or institutions established around a set of resource-sharing rules and conditions. The VO may require the use of on-site (local) and off-site (public) compute resources that can ...
- ArticleMay 2008
GridBatch: Cloud Computing for Large-Scale Data-Intensive Batch Applications
CCGRID '08: Proceedings of the 2008 Eighth IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the GridPages 295–305https://doi.org/10.1109/CCGRID.2008.30To be competitive, Enterprises are collecting and analyzing increasingly large amount of data in order to derive business insights. However, there are at least two challenges to meet the increasing demand. First, the growth in the amount of data far ...