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User-Centric Heterogeneity-Aware MapReduce Job Provisioning in the Public Cloud
using identical VM instances for the Hadoop cluster. In this paper, we propose and develop U-CHAMPION, ...arnold - December 13, 2021 - 5:52 pm
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Exploiting Temporal Diversity of Water Efficiency to Make Data Center Less "Thirsty"
Wednesday, July 23, 2014- 3:30pm Mohammad A. Islam, Kishwar Ahmed, Shaolei Ren, and Gang Quan, Florida International University Data centers, which include both cyber (e.g., servers) and physical (e.g., cooling units) assets, are notorious for their energ ...arnold - December 13, 2021 - 8:20 am
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Real-time Edge Analytics for Cyber Physical Systems using Compression Rates
limited by the capabilities of the typically battery powered low resourced devices. In this paper we ...arnold - December 13, 2021 - 9:21 am
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Self-Optimizing Citizen-Centric Mobile Urban Sensing Systems
Usman Adeel, Shusen Yang, and Julie A. McCann, Imperial College London In this paper, we develop ...arnold - December 13, 2021 - 6:52 pm
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Gait Recognition using Encodings with Flexible Similarity Metrics
Michael B. Crouse, Kevin Chen, and H.T. Kung, Harvard University Gait signals detectable by sensors on ubiquitous personal devices such as smartphones can reveal characteristics unique to each individual, and thereby offer a new approach to recognizing us ...arnold - December 13, 2021 - 6:52 pm
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On-demand, Spot, or Both: Dynamic Resource Allocation for Executing Batch Jobs in the Cloud
market price exceeds the bid. This paper introduces an online learning algorithm for resource allocation ...arnold - December 13, 2021 - 6:52 pm
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Real-Time Scheduling of Skewed MapReduce Jobs in Heterogeneous Environments
demands imposed by the applications. In this paper we describe our approach for scheduling real-time, ...arnold - December 13, 2021 - 9:21 am
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CloudPowerCap: Integrating Power Budget and Resource Management across a Virtualized Server Cluster
center operator with managing the rack power budget across the hosts. In this paper we present Cloud- ...arnold - December 13, 2021 - 8:20 am
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Storage Workload Isolation via Tier Warming: How Models Can Help
Ji Xue and Feng Yan, College of William and Mary; Alma Riska, EMC Corporation; Evgenia Smirni, College of William and Mary Storage systems are often deployed in a tiered form to enable high performance and availability. These tiers utilize all possible vo ...arnold - December 13, 2021 - 6:52 pm
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A Comprehensive Resource Management Solution for Web-based Systems
Milano This paper presents an autonomic resource management solution that looks at the non-functional ...arnold - December 13, 2021 - 9:21 am
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PCP: A Generalized Approach to Optimizing Performance Under Power Constraints through Resource Management
redesigned and reimplemented. This paper presents PCP, a general solution to the power budgeting problem that ...arnold - December 13, 2021 - 6:52 pm
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Coordinating Liquid and Free Air Cooling with Workload Allocation for Data Center Power Minimization
are expected to follow. In this paper, we propose SmartCool, a power optimization scheme that ...arnold - December 13, 2021 - 9:21 am
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Managing Green Datacenters Powered by Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems
coordination. This paper takes the first step toward exploring green datacenters powered by hybrid renewable ...arnold - December 13, 2021 - 6:52 pm
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WattValet: Heterogenous Energy Storage Management in Data Centers for Improved Power Capping
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign This paper presents WattValet, an efficient solution to reduce data center ...arnold - December 13, 2021 - 6:52 pm
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Colocation Demand Response: Why Do I Turn Off My Servers?
electricity demand upon utility’s request), making power grid more stable and sustainable. In this paper, we ...arnold - December 13, 2021 - 8:20 am
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Ten Years of iCTF: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
they are difficult to design, implement, and run. This paper presents a framework that is based on the ...arnold - December 21, 2021 - 11:29 am
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PicoCTF: A Game-Based Computer Security Competition for High School Students
Wednesday, July 23, 2014- 3:30pm Peter Chapman, Jonathan Burket, and David Brumley, Carnegie Mellon University The shortage of computer security experts is a critical problem. To encourage greater computer science interest among high school students, we ...arnold - December 21, 2021 - 11:30 am
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The Fun and Future of CTF
events—lists 76 such contests, and more spring up each year. But what is the point, exactly? In this paper we ...arnold - December 17, 2021 - 1:02 pm
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Practical Lessons from Creating the Control-Alt-Hack Card Game and Research Challenges for Games In Education and Research
Wednesday, July 23, 2014- 3:30pm Tamara Denning, University of Washington; Adam Shostack; Tadayoshi Kohno, University of Washington We designed, produced, distributed, and evaluated Control-Alt-Hack™: a recreational tabletop card game intended to promo ...arnold - December 21, 2021 - 11:27 am
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SecurityEmpire: Development and Evaluation of a Digital Game to Promote Cybersecurity Education
Wednesday, July 23, 2014- 3:30pm Marc Olano, Alan Sherman, Linda Oliva, Ryan Cox, Deborah Firestone, Oliver Kubik, Milind Patil, John Seymour, Isaac Sohn, and Donna Thomas, University of Maryland, Baltimore County SecurityEmpire is a new multiplayer compu ...arnold - December 21, 2021 - 11:32 am
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Class Capture-the-Flag Exercises
Wednesday, July 23, 2014- 3:30pm Jelena Mirkovic and Peter A. H. Peterson, USC/Information Sciences Institute The field of cybersecurity is adversarial—the real challenge lies in outsmarting motivated and knowledgeable human attackers. Sadly, this aspect ...arnold - December 21, 2021 - 11:31 am
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An Argument for Game Balance: Improving Student Engagement by Matching Difficulty Level with Learner Readiness
This paper presents an ar-gument for supporting learner engagement by balancing the difficulty level of ...arnold - December 21, 2021 - 11:34 am
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A Case Study in Helping Students to Covertly Eat Their Classmates
dominate the game. In this paper, we discuss instances where this has occurred through several uses of the ...arnold - December 17, 2021 - 1:05 pm
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CyberCIEGE Scenario Design and Implementation
Wednesday, July 23, 2014- 3:30pm Michael F. Thompson and Cynthia E. Irvine, Naval Postgraduate School In 2005, the initial version of CyberCIEGE, a network security simulation packaged as a video game, was released. Since then, we have developed a suite ...arnold - December 21, 2021 - 11:35 am
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Convergent Dispersal: Toward Storage-Efficient Security in a Cloud-of-Clouds
Wednesday, July 23, 2014- 1:30pm Mingqiang Li, Chuan Qin, Patrick P. C. Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Jin Li, Guangzhou University Cloud-of-clouds storage exploits diversity of cloud storage vendors to provide fault tolerance and avoid vendor ...arnold - December 13, 2021 - 9:52 am