This paper aimed to identify the various kinds of distributed denial service attacks (DDoS) attacks, their destructive capabilities, and most all, how best these issues could be counter attacked resolved for benefit all stakeholders along cloud continuum, preferably as permanent solutions. A compilation types DDoS is done, strike capabilities computing environment addressed continuum. The key c...

For several year, "Entre Douro e Minho"(EDM) area has undergone an important diminution in agricultural surface and number of exploitations. RGA analysis of 1989 and 1999 confirms this tendency but some “fréguesias” know an increase in the cultures surface cultivated like Vinho Verde. Spatial representation of the RGA data in a GIS shows the great productive areas of Vinho Verde where cultures ...

This paper presents the experience of an Europe-Africa telemedicine network, focused on the pediatric area, and involving hospitals located in Luanda (Angola), Benguela (Angola), Praia (Cape Verde) and Coimbra (Portugal). In the scope of this network, the cooperation between these hospitals goes beyond the teleconsultation sessions. Tele-training, clinical experience exchange, patient transfer ...

Among storage components, hard disk drives (HDDs) have become the most commonly-used type of nonvolatile storage due to their recent technological advances, including, enhanced energy efficacy and significantly-improved areal density. Such advances in HDDs have made them an inevitable part of numerous computing systems, including, personal computers, closed-circuit television (CCTV) systems, me...