Cloud computing is a model that allows resources to be offered as services over the Internet. Due to dynamic and virtualized nature of cloud environments and diversity of client requests, providing the expected service quality while avoiding over-provisioning is not a simple task. To ensure that the provisioned service is acceptable, providers must exploit techniques and mechanisms that guarant...

Infrastructures are group-like structures that make their appearance in arithmetic geometry in the study of computational problems related to number fields and functional fields over finite fields. The most prominent computational tasks of infrastructures are the computation of the circumference of the infrastructure and the generalized discrete logarithms. Both these problems are not known to ...

Information infrastructures, such as the Internet and Computational Grids, have enabled a networked computing and communication environment. Although many organizations depend on network-centric information operations to support critical missions, existing information infrastructures provide little guarantee of the dependability of network-centric computing and communication. This paper discuss...

The study of drug smuggling has often taken an organizational perspective whereby the structures how is constituted predominate. Building on a growing body scholarship addressing networked complexities this article considers importance distinct infrastructural arrangements. Its primary focus materiality infrastructures, and social, spatial temporal qualities these configurations overlap with li...