Legacy experimental network infrastructures can still host innovative services through novel slicing orchestration architectures. Network architectures available in state-of-the-art have building blocks that structurally change depending on the problem they are trying to solve. In these orchestrators, life-cycle functions of slices experience advances numerous fronts, such as combinatorial meth...

The performance of applications running within VMs is a significant factor in their adoption. VMware ESX Server was designed for high performance, and its architecture is streamlined to provide high-speed I/O. In this paper, we focus on one component of ESX Server's I/O architecture, its storage subsystem. We look at the characteristics of a series of disk microbenchmarks on several different s...

Due to the current hype around cloud computing, the term “native cloud application” becomes increasingly popular. It suggests an application to fully benefit from all the advantages of cloud computing. Many users tend to consider their applications as cloud native if the application is just bundled in a virtual machine image or a container. Even though virtualization is fundamental for implemen...

The Linux Threads library which is currently part of the standard runtime environment of a Linux system does a poor job of satisfying the demand for POSIX compliant threading used in modern systems. It is not designed to leverage the Linux kernel extensions present and in development today, it does not scale efficiently, and it does not take modern processor architectures into account. A comple...

In this paper, we describe the approach of the ItaliaNLP Lab team to native language identification and discuss the results we submitted as participants to the essay track of NLI Shared Task 2017. We introduce for the first time a 2-stacked sentencedocument architecture for native language identification that is able to exploit both local sentence information and a wide set of general–purpose f...

According to research, between 15 to 20 percent of the total energy consumption of every country is used for residential spaces. This amount is explanatory of the high cost and will follow the destruction of natural resources and environmental demolition. The aim of this research is to recognize earth thermal ability and its usage in public buildings and especially in private buildings in order...

Social Media has infiltrated all manner of users, and none more than the current digital native who is studying at university. This has led to the rise in questions of how best to use these computermediated communications in academic settings. Recent research shows that Twitter is very popular amongst students, though little work exists on the impact of Tweeting, and how it can be measured. Thi...

"Native" mass spectrometry has become a valuable tool for structural biology. In this issue of Chemistry & Biology, Quintyn et al. (2015) show that modified instruments capable of surface-induced dissociation allow dissection of protein complexes in a way that is reminiscent of their native topology and architecture.