Policy-based Management has been the subject of extensive research over the last decade. Most research work on policies has concentrated in necessary fundamental aspects such as classification, policy language, conflict detection and most recently in policy representation and storage. Little work has been done in the area of the harmonic coexistence of policies and traditional, possibly hierarc...

The optimal design of environmental liability policy focuses on two primary policy issues: the cleanup of existing sources of pollution and the definition and enforcement of policies to promote prospectively efficient environmental risk reduction. Through the analysis of a policy toward a pervasive environmental risk -leaking underground storage tanks -we analyze the effectiveness of an existin...

Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attackers apply multiple sophisticated methods to continuously and stealthily steal information from the targeted cloud storage systems and can even induce the storage system to apply a specific defense strategy and attack it accordingly. In this paper, the interactions between an APT attacker and a defender allocating their Central Processing Units (CPUs) over ...

An acceptable long-term solution for used (spent) fuel from nuclear power reactors has evaded all countries engaged in the civilian nuclear fuel cycle. Furthermore, many countries are trying to develop interim storage solutions that address the shortage of storage in the spent fuel cooling pools at reactors. The United States has a particularly acute problem due to its adherence to an open fuel...

now a days, plenty of users area unit storing their data’s in cloud, as a result of it provides storage flexibility. However the most drawbacks in cloud are information security. Cipher text-Policy Attribute-based cryptography (CP-ABE) is thought to be one among the foremost appropriate technologies for information access management in cloud storage; as a result of it offers information house o...

This work deals with the operation, modeling, simulation, and cost evaluation of two different cold storage systems for a single-family house in Italy, that differ from one another on the cold storage material. The two materials used to perform the numerical simulations of the cold storage systems are represented by cold water and a phase change material (PCM), and the numerical simulations hav...

Nowadays, data storage requirements from end-users are growing, demanding more capacity, more reliability and the capability to access information from anywhere. Cloud storage services meet this demand by providing transparent and reliable storage solutions. Most of these solutions are built on distributed infrastructures that rely on data redundancy to guarantee a 100% of data availability. Un...

Current storage appliances have been traditionally designed to meet either the storage demands of a local or a wide area network. The grid is unique in that it escapes this limitation and allows users to share resources both within and between local area networks. However, this freedom creates many new challenges to storage appliances that would be used on the grid. NeST is a user-level softwar...

Current storage appliances have been traditionally designed to meet either the storage demands of a local or a wide area network. The grid is unique in that it escapes this limitation and allows users to share resources both within and between local area networks. However, this freedom creates many new challenges to storage appliances that would be used on the grid. NeST is a user-level softwar...