As the disks typically found in personal computers grow larger, protecting data by replicating it on a collection of “peer” systems rather than on dedicated high performance s...
Dmitry Brodsky, Michael J. Feeley, Norman C. Hutch...
This paper has three goals. (1) We try to debunk several held misconceptions about secure deletion: that encryption is an ideal solution for everybody, that existing data-overwrit...
Genetic Algorithms (GAs) are very popular optimization tool, although efficient applications of GAs requires users have problem with setting their parameters and used genetic ope...
Recent work in the area of Model-based Safety Analysis has demonstrated key advantages of this methodology over traditional approaches, for example, the capability of automatic ge...
In this paper, we consider an M/M/k queueing system with setup costs. Servers are turned off when there is no work to do, but turning on an off server incurs a setup cost. The s...