Today, cloud computing applications are rapidly constructed by services belonging to different cloud providers and service owners. This work presents the inter-cloud elasticity framework, which focuses on cloud load balancing based on dynamic virtual machine reconfiguration when variations on load or on user requests volume are observed. We design a dynamic reconfiguration system, called inter-...

In the last decade new scalable data stores have emerged in order to process and store the increasing amount of data that is produced every day. These data stores are inherently distributed to adapt to the increasing load and generated data. HBase is one of such data stores built after Google BigTable that stores large tables (hundreds of millions of rows) where data is stored sorted by key. A ...

Static load balancing is attractive due to its simplicity and low communication costs. We analyze under which circumstances a randomized static load balancer can achieve good balance if the subproblem sizes are unknown and choosen by an adversary. It turns out that this worst case scenario is quite close to a more specialized model for applications related to parallel backtrack search. In both ...

The presence of power generating plants owned by prosumers may lead to unbalanced bidirectional energy flows at the points connection relevant distribution systems. This will impact future communities, where appropriate metering within community is a crucial issue for billing purposes. paper shows that current metrics active measurement and registration three-phase revenue meters fail fairly ch...

United States professional military advisors play a critical role across the spectrum of conflict within various services’ strategies in support overall National Defense Strategy. In an era great power competition, advisory forces shadow large-scale conflict, provide crucial edge for US services fulfilling their strategic role. Within each unique - Army’s multidomain operations, Marine Corps ex...

Turkey and Russia's relationship has often been characterized by conflict, cooperation, competition. The rise of Vladimir Putin in Russia the coming into power Justice Development Party 2000s signaled a positive shift relations as cooperation increased. paper reveals that November 2015 plane crisis, which rocked their tie, was intensified differences geopolitical outlook over Syria. reactivist ...