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CommitteesPublication Year: 2012, Page(s):iv - viii| PDF (525 KB)
Conf. overview and venuePublication Year: 2012, Page(s): i| PDF (41 KB)
[Copyright notice]Publication Year: 2012, Page(s): 1| PDF (29 KB)
[Front cover]Publication Year: 2012, Page(s): c1| PDF (1164 KB)
KeynotesPublication Year: 2012, Page(s):xvii - xx
These keynotes discusses the following: Cloud Computing & Applications; Cloud Collaboration Service-Earning From Cloud; UAE Educational Cloud over ANKABUT; Noisy Neighbors, Isolation and QoS in Cloud Infrastructures. View full abstract»
Patron & program chair's messagePublication Year: 2012, Page(s): iii
ICCCTAM-12 schedulePublication Year: 2012, Page(s):ix - xii| PDF (1893 KB)
Appendix - A: SponsorsPublication Year: 2012, Page(s): 248| PDF (476 KB)
Table of contentsPublication Year: 2012, Page(s):xiii - xvi| PDF (55 KB)
Secure Co-resident virtualization in multicore systems by VM pinning and page coloringPublication Year: 2012, Page(s):1 - 7
Cited by: Papers (1)
Cloud computing adoption and diffusion are threatened by unresolved security issues that affect both the cloud provider and the cloud user. In case of cloud, data from potentially competing sources could reside on the same disk or same memory structure, and a computer process can violate its virtual boundary to access the competitor's data. Current Virtual Machine Monitors (VMMs) used in cloud pro... View full abstract»
Performance measure of multi stage scheduling algorithm in cloud computingPublication Year: 2012, Page(s):8 - 11
Scheduling user requests in cloud computing for resource provision is key process in cloud computing. In cloud computing sometimes user request has to be processed with a series of virtual machines from the available resources. Each request ri (1<;=i<;=n) in cloud environment has to complete its workflow on a virtual machine of type VM1 for an instance of Ti1 units time, later on a virtual m... View full abstract»
Performance analysis of cloud computing using Queuing modelsPublication Year: 2012, Page(s):12 - 15
Cited by: Papers (5)
Cloud computing is a new economic computing paradigm in which information and computer resources can be accessed from a Web browser by customers. The process of a job entering into the cloud schedule is generally in the form of queue, so that each user needs to wait until the earlier users are being served. Whenever a new job enters the cloud buffer, the queue length increases so the waiting time.... View full abstract»
Security & Privacy Architecture as a service for Small and Medium EnterprisesPublication Year: 2012, Page(s):16 - 21
This paper focuses on Security and Privacy for Small and Medium Enterprises pertaining to their dependency on small clouds to carry out their business activities. They lack the knowledge pertaining to the security to be applied to safeguard their data and services due to lack of in-house expert technical resources, security architects or less budgets to carry out the vulnerability study for them a... View full abstract»
Sharing-aware intercloud scheduler for data-intensive jobsPublication Year: 2012, Page(s):22 - 26
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Cloud computing, a new concept refers to a hosted computational environment that can provide elastic computation and storage services for users per demand. This paradigm arises due to the huge growth in applications and data sizes. Consider the fact that many agencies, organizations and departments are responsible for time-critical tasks and these tasks need to be completed as soon as possible. At... View full abstract»
A fine grained access control and flexible revocation scheme for data security on public cloud storage servicesPublication Year: 2012, Page(s):27 - 33
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Cloud computing based storage services have rapidly spread in the market due to their promising capabilities and features. However, the security challenge of outsourcing sensitive data for sharing on the cloud which is not fully controlled by the data owners is still open. In this paper, we present negative and positive attributes in attribute based encryption to support fine grained access contro... View full abstract»
Applications of cloud computing for resource sharing in academic librariesPublication Year: 2012, Page(s):34 - 37
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Universities and Colleges are the core of innovation through their advanced research and development. Higher education libraries of different size and type all over the world suffer from common problems such as shrinking budgets, accommodating resources within the budgetary constraints, Countering increased scope of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary nature of subjects, flexibility associated... View full abstract»
Implementation of distributed chess engine using PaaSPublication Year: 2012, Page(s):38 - 42
The present day limitation on clock speed of the CPU makes it burdensome to efficiently execute algorithms that require high processing power. This paper brings to picture how distributed systems can be utilized to address such issues, which are limited by the hardware configurations of current-day physical systems. To illustrate the same, the Minimax algorithm is depicted here. The algorithm that... View full abstract»
Designing and deploying a Hospital Management Application in Google cloud and performance study of the applicationPublication Year: 2012, Page(s):43 - 51
Web Services are internet enabled software components. By composing web services we can provide integration of Enterprise applications. Web Services are being used extensively by many enterprises like IBM, Microsoft and oracle every day. SOAP and REST are very popular types of web services. A Hospital Management Application is implemented as a web service that can perform functions like online app... View full abstract»
Applications of cloud computing in remote oil and gas operationsPublication Year: 2012, Page(s):52 - 55
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This study is based on the various applications that cloud computing finds in petroleum, oil and gas industry. From finding hydrocarbon reserves to their production and conservation as well as feedback collection of efficiency of the said application have been included in the present study. These applications have been touched in detail and their explanations expounded. Some avenues which have sco... View full abstract»
ERP on Cloud: Implementation strategies and challengesPublication Year: 2012, Page(s):56 - 59
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This paper aims to discuss about the ERP implementation strategies and challenges in a Cloud Environment. ERP is important business software used in all major enterprises and is a useful tool to coordinate the available resources, information and activities to complete the business process. Its importance in an enterprise has led to an increased demand of the ERP software. ERP in CLOUD environment... View full abstract»
Framework of a national level electronic health record systemPublication Year: 2012, Page(s):60 - 65
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Electronic health is vital for enabling improved access to health records, and boosting the quality of the health services provided. In this paper, a framework for an electronic health record system is to be developed for connecting a nation's health care facilities together in a network using cloud computing technology. Cloud computing ensures easy access to health records from anywhere and at an... View full abstract»
A study on significance of adopting cloud computing paradigm in healthcare sectorPublication Year: 2012, Page(s):65 - 68
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Healthcare sector is information critical industry that deals with human lives. Transforming from traditional paper-based to Electronic Health Records (EHRs) was not efficient enough since EHRs require resources, integration, maintenance and high cost implementation. Cloud computing paradigm offers flexible, cost effective, collaborative, multi-tenant infrastructure which assists in transforming e... View full abstract»
The need, use and efficiency of trustworthy security model in Cloud computing for information assurancePublication Year: 2012, Page(s):69 - 73
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The Cloud computing helps enterprises transform business and technology. It is effective in cost, flexible, and it's a proven delivery platform for providing business or consumer IT services over the Internet. The resources of cloud can be scaled easily and deployed rapidly with all services, applications and processes provisioned "on demand", regardless of the location of user or de... View full abstract»
Security issues and control mechanisms in CloudPublication Year: 2012, Page(s):74 - 76
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The responsibility of providing cost-effective, elastic and on-demand access to computing and storage resources lies with the Cloud Service Providers. As for the end-user, it provides an abstraction of reliable and infinite resource availability. Infinite resource availability is based on virtualization technology and availability of a shared pool of computational and storage resources. It is this... View full abstract»


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2016 Honda CRV Hybrid, Redesign, Diesel - Honda Cars Review
Honda CRV Concept, Honda CRV Hybrid, Honda CRV Release Date, New Honda CRV Specs
Welcome to Raiacars.com, The next review about 2016 Honda CRV Hybrid, Redesign, Diesel from Honda cars. Let's see more specification, concept and review details for this cars below.
2016 HONDA CRV: REDESIGN EXTERIOR AND INTERIORThe updates which are circulating market highlight the point that 2016 Honda CRV is going to possess some details that will also be seen inside 2015 Honda Fit. However innovations will be there for providing the vehicle individuality. Anterior side is going to get newer framework and better style of headlights. In place of earlier large halogens the upcoming model will contain squint also aggressive HID. Anterior bumper with bigger fog lights are also going to receive better styling for providing this an appealing look. The vehicle will be presented with many choices of colors and tail lamps will also get some proper restyling 18 inch newer wheels will be given to this aggressive model and surely they will improve performing potential of the car. They will reflect a stronger power sense which is really very interesting.The car maker is surely going to include handsome features inside of 2016 Honda CRV . It is going to arrive with better equipment and many strong useful qualities. The car will be spacious so a family of five can easily ride it and the best part is that no compromise upon comfort has been made because Honda understands requirements and expectations of its customers because of this reason it reflects better performance with 2016 Honda CRV. All modernized and upgraded equipments and tools will be provided so that riders can enjoy a smooth driving experience.
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In The Myth of the Rational Voter (2007), Bryan Caplan argues that voters are not just ignorant, they are irrational and systematically biased in judging economic policies. In furtherance of this claim, Caplan compares certain beliefs held by a large portion of the voting public to the prevailing views of the economics profession. He notes that voters systematically choose bad policies as judged by economic experts. As a result, democracies choose bad policies. Using this evidence, Caplan suggests that it is plausible for economic experts to have political authority: individuals should obey the economic policy decisions of economists because they should recognize that their beliefs diverge significantly from what the experts in the field believe, and this divergence is likely the result of cognitive biases. In a follow up paper, Caplan writes:
Once we set aside autonomy concerns, though, Estlund's expert/boss "fallacy" makes sense. Given the claim that "The experts are more likely to be right about X than us," it is hard to deny that "We should do what the experts think about X." If economists are better able to weigh the merits of free trade and protection, there has to be a presumption that we should adopt the trade policy that economists think best. Of course, you could deny that economists know better; but once you grant that premise, it is hard to see why you shouldn't heed their judgment.
So suppose we grant that we should heed experts' judgments. This admission quickly raises the next question: What should experts do if someone violates the moral imperative to heed their advice? In a democratic context, this question becomes: Would it be justifiable for experts to overrule the majority for its own good – i.e., for experts to act as "bosses"? Once we set aside arguments from autonomy, as Estlund seems to do, it is hard to see any principled objection to this expert/boss inference (not "fallacy"). Think about it this way: By assumption, an expert knows more than you do, and you won't listen. Without challenging these premises, how could you block the expert/boss inference other than by saying "I have a right to make the wrong decision"?
To be clear, Caplan is not suggesting that experts should always have political authority, for he leaves aside arguments based on rights, autonomy, and pragmatic concerns (e.g., who is to police the experts?). Rather, he is making a claim that it is at least pre facie reasonable to expect individuals to heed the proscriptions of economists.
Now, here are my concerns about this. If we recognize that majority voting qua decision procedure possesses no epistemic authority (i.e., just because a majority believes that X is the case does not show that X is actually the case), how should the economically-ignorant laymen (i.e., those without a PhD in economics) choose which expert-backed opinion to believe? The data set Caplan utilizes in support of his claim that voters differ from experts are surveys of economists. The problem is that there is never unanimity in beliefs; rather, we often see some percentage split among these experts. Sometimes the split is 75-25, 65-35, 80-20, etc. But if majority voting is not a proper tool for making decisions among the population writ large, why is it so among economic experts? How is it rational to place faith in this decision-procedure in light of the fact that experts disagree? How are we to judge the competing claims of experts?
One may argue that an economist is not an "expert" if they do not share the prevailing views of the profession. But this seems to beg the question, for the important problem precisely is why should we grant "expert" status (and thus obey) to the views of "the majority" of the profession.
Perhaps Caplan discusses this issue in his book or in follow-up work. Perhaps the answer is based on some kind of Condorcet Jury Theorem application (claiming that economists are more than 50% likely to get the answer right, that there is no evidence of systematic bias among economists, etc.). I'm skeptical, but I have to go back and read his book (which I haven't read in 4 years or so). Anyway, these are some things I have been pondering.


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Bring me a sunrise stretched onto film, that spring
when I'm too broke to stroll outside. Or else pen
new day dyes to your palms, five fingered prisms, hues
pulled though skin, bent and dried, whole armfuls
of starlight. Wash sky on veins above
vacuums until nails can't hide the bloom:
claret, citrus, peach yet rise.


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