In this paper, we propose virtual data center (VDC) as the unit of resource allocation for multiple tenants in the cloud. VDCs are more desirable than physical data centers becaus...
Chuanxiong Guo, Guohan Lu, Helen J. Wang, Shuang Y...
Abstract. Virtual environments (VEs) can be used to study issues related to human navigation, such as spatial knowledge acquisition. In our prior work, we introduced a new locomoti...
Ji-Sun Kim, Denis Gracanin, Kresimir Matkovic, Fra...
-- Assessing the value of individual users' contributions in peer-production systems is paramount to the design of mechanisms that support collaboration and improve users'...
Elizeu Santos-Neto, Flavio Figueiredo, Jussara M. ...
Cloud computing provides users near instant access to seemingly unlimited resources, and provides service providers the opportunity to deploy complex information technology infras...
Yun Mao, Changbin Liu, Jacobus E. van der Merwe, M...
In most existing systems, the authorization check for system resource access is based on the user ID of the running processes. Such systems are vulnerable to password stealing/cra...