Flexible Framework for Real-Time Embedded Systems Based on Mobile Cloud Computing Paradigm

The development of applications as well as the services for mobile systems faces a varied range of devices with very heterogeneous capabilities whose response times are difficult to predict. The research described in this work aims to respond to this issue by developing a computational model that formalizes the problem and that defines adjusting computing methods. The described proposal combines imprecise computing strategies with cloud computing paradigms in order to provide flexible implementation frameworks for embedded or mobile devices. As a result, the imprecise computation scheduling method on the workload of the embedded system is the solution to move computing to the cloud according to the priority and response time of the tasks to be executed and hereby be able to meet productivity and quality of desired services. A technique to estimate network delays and to schedule more accurately tasks is illustrated in this paper. An application example in which this technique is experimented in running contexts with heterogeneous work loading for checking the validity of the proposed model is described.

Proposta de framework para cloud computing em dispositivos móveis

Dissertação apresentada ao Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Mestre em Desenvolvimento de Software e Sistemas Interactivos, realizada sob a orientação científica do Doutor Osvaldo Arede dos Santos, Professor Adjunto da Unidade Técnico Científica de Informática da Escola Superior de Tecnologia do Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco.

La Direttiva 2008/104/CE relativa al lavoro tramite agenzia interinale: aspetti problematici e modelli di implementazione = Directive 2008/104/EC relating to temporary agency work: problematic aspects and implementation models. WP C.S.D.L.E. “Massimo D’Antona”.INT – 101/2013

The problematic gestation of the Directive on temporary agency work shows the presence of several criticalities that there are also in the national transposition in relation to the principle of equal treatment and to the mechanisms for preventing abuse during successive assignments. From a first analysis it can be said that in some EU Member States only the derogations have been implemented and not the general principle of equal treatment. At the same time, the obligation of the Member States, contained in the Directive on temporary agency work, to establish mechanisms for preventing abuse during successive assignments is crucial, especially in the light of the recent case law of the EU Court of Justice in which the Court does not apply to the temporary agency workers the protective rules of the Directive on fixed-term contracts (see C-290/12 , Della Rocca).

Implementazione e test di modelli di ottimizzazione per la pianificazione tattica del blocco operatorio

In questa tesi è stato analizzato e tradotto nel linguaggio di alto livello AMPL un modello di ILP relativo alla pianificazione tattica del blocco operatorio. L'obiettivo è quello di permettere l'interfacciamento con numerosi solver -commerciali e non- al fine di analizzarne le prestazioni. In seguito a un'introduzione in merito al problema dell'Operating Room Management e a una descrizione del contesto sanitario regionale dell'Emilia-Romagna, si è proceduto alla descrizione formale del modello. Infine sono state eseguite numerose risoluzioni con i solver cplex e gurobi al variare di alcuni parametri in ingresso, tra cui il numero di sale operatorie, di infermieri e operatori sanitari, e di pazienti in lista d'attesa.

Gemme della letteratura italiana; modelli di prosa e poesia, con notizie biografiche, giudizi critici, e argomenti delle opere principali antiche e moderne.

Mode of access: Internet.

Arte de la correspondencia en italiano y español : modelos de cartas de varios asuntos y para toda especie de operaciones mercantiles, etc. = Arte della corrispondenza o segretario spagnuolo-italiano : modelli di lettere familiari, mercantili ed altre.

Mode of access: Internet.

Nuovo segretario, o Modelli di lettere sopra ogni sorta di argomenti colle loro risposte. Preceduti da un' istruzione sul cerimoniale epistolare.

Mode of access: Internet.

The Cloud Computing and Computer Virology

Евгений Николов, Димитрина Полимирова - Докладът представя текущото състояние на “облачните изчисления” и “облачните информационни атаки” в светлината на компютърната вирусология и информационната сигурност. Обсъдени са категориите “облачни възможни информационни атаки” и “облачни успешни информационни атаки”. Коментирана е архитектурата на “облачните изчисления” и основните компоненти, които изграждат тяхната инфраструктура, съответно “клиенти” (“clients”), „центрове за съхранение на данни“ (“datacenters”) и „разпределени сървъри“ (“dirstributed servers”). Коментирани са и услугите, които се предлагат от “облачните изчисления” – SaaS, HaaS и PaaS. Посочени са предимствата и недостатъците на компонентите и услугите по отношение на “облачните информационни атаки”. Направен е анализ на текущото състояние на “облачните информационни атаки” на територията на България, Балканския полуостров и Югоизточна Европа по отношение на компонентите и на услугите. Резултатите са представени под формата на 3D графични обекти. На края са направени съответните изводи и препоръки под формата на заключение.

The Application of Cloud Computing in Education

Report published in the Proceedings of the National Conference on "Education and Research in the Information Society", Plovdiv, May, 2015

On modeling and satisfaction of non-functional requirements using cloud computing

Specification of the non-functional requirements of applications and determining the required resources for their execution are activities that demand a great deal of technical knowledge, frequently resulting in an inefficient use of resources. Cloud computing is an alternative for provisioning of resources, which can be done using either the provider's own infrastructure or the infrastructure of one or more public clouds, or even a combination of both. It enables more flexibly/elastic use of resources, but does not solve the specification problem. In this paper we present an approach that uses models at runtime to facilitate the specification of non-functional requirements and resources, aiming to facilitate dynamic support for application execution in cloud computing environments with shared resources. © 2013 IEEE.

Delay-sensitive service request scheduling for cloud computing

Cloud computing realizes the long-held dream of converting computing capability into a type of utility. It has the potential to fundamentally change the landscape of the IT industry and our way of life. However, as cloud computing expanding substantially in both scale and scope, ensuring its sustainable growth is a critical problem. Service providers have long been suffering from high operational costs. Especially the costs associated with the skyrocketing power consumption of large data centers. In the meantime, while efficient power/energy utilization is indispensable for the sustainable growth of cloud computing, service providers must also satisfy a user's quality of service (QoS) requirements. This problem becomes even more challenging considering the increasingly stringent power/energy and QoS constraints, as well as other factors such as the highly dynamic, heterogeneous, and distributed nature of the computing infrastructures, etc. ^ In this dissertation, we study the problem of delay-sensitive cloud service scheduling for the sustainable development of cloud computing. We first focus our research on the development of scheduling methods for delay-sensitive cloud services on a single server with the goal of maximizing a service provider's profit. We then extend our study to scheduling cloud services in distributed environments. In particular, we develop a queue-based model and derive efficient request dispatching and processing decisions in a multi-electricity-market environment to improve the profits for service providers. We next study a problem of multi-tier service scheduling. By carefully assigning sub deadlines to the service tiers, our approach can significantly improve resource usage efficiencies with statistically guaranteed QoS. Finally, we study the power conscious resource provision problem for service requests with different QoS requirements. By properly sharing computing resources among different requests, our method statistically guarantees all QoS requirements with a minimized number of powered-on servers and thus the power consumptions. The significance of our research is that it is one part of the integrated effort from both industry and academia to ensure the sustainable growth of cloud computing as it continues to evolve and change our society profoundly.^

Delay-Sensitive Service Request Scheduling for Cloud Computing

Cloud computing realizes the long-held dream of converting computing capability into a type of utility. It has the potential to fundamentally change the landscape of the IT industry and our way of life. However, as cloud computing expanding substantially in both scale and scope, ensuring its sustainable growth is a critical problem. Service providers have long been suffering from high operational costs. Especially the costs associated with the skyrocketing power consumption of large data centers. In the meantime, while efficient power/energy utilization is indispensable for the sustainable growth of cloud computing, service providers must also satisfy a user's quality of service (QoS) requirements. This problem becomes even more challenging considering the increasingly stringent power/energy and QoS constraints, as well as other factors such as the highly dynamic, heterogeneous, and distributed nature of the computing infrastructures, etc. In this dissertation, we study the problem of delay-sensitive cloud service scheduling for the sustainable development of cloud computing. We first focus our research on the development of scheduling methods for delay-sensitive cloud services on a single server with the goal of maximizing a service provider's profit. We then extend our study to scheduling cloud services in distributed environments. In particular, we develop a queue-based model and derive efficient request dispatching and processing decisions in a multi-electricity-market environment to improve the profits for service providers. We next study a problem of multi-tier service scheduling. By carefully assigning sub deadlines to the service tiers, our approach can significantly improve resource usage efficiencies with statistically guaranteed QoS. Finally, we study the power conscious resource provision problem for service requests with different QoS requirements. By properly sharing computing resources among different requests, our method statistically guarantees all QoS requirements with a minimized number of powered-on servers and thus the power consumptions. The significance of our research is that it is one part of the integrated effort from both industry and academia to ensure the sustainable growth of cloud computing as it continues to evolve and change our society profoundly.

Valutazione dell’efficacia di barriere chimiche contro l’umidita’ da risalita capillare nelle murature mediante modelli di laboratorio

La risalita capillare di umidità nelle murature storiche è la principale responsabile del degrado dei materiali. La metodologia ad oggi più utilizzata in tale campo è quella basata sull’iniezione di prodotti chimici in grado di formare barriere artificiali che blocchino il flusso ascendente dell’acqua, ma è ancora in fase di perfezionamento. Per potere svolgere tale perfezionamento, è utile disporre di una metodologia attendibile per la valutazione dell’esito dei trattamenti, ossia un metodo standardizzato che possa garantire una corretta misurazione del contenuto di umidità nelle murature pre e post iniezioni. Nella presente tesi, che ha lo scopo di valutare l’efficacia di alcuni prodotti per barriere chimiche nelle murature, si è utilizzato un metodo di laboratorio standardizzato proposto dai ricercatori del LASTM (DICAM), che permette di riprodurre in laboratorio il processo di risalita dell’umidità e, allo stesso tempo, permette di potere svolgere le misurazioni del contenuto d’acqua interno ai materiali con il metodo diretto. I trattamenti, svolti in collaborazione con la Azienda inglese “Safeguard”, produttrice di resine impermeabilizzanti, sono stati effettuati su vari modelli, costituiti di laterizi e malta, preventivamente sottoposti a differenti condizioni ambientali. Successivamente si è svolto un monitoraggio periodico per potere determinare sia l’efficacia dell’intervento che l’attendibilità del modello. Dopo avere studiato un sistema di controllo delle condizioni di laboratorio, si è ritenuto opportuno svolgere anche alcune prove di caratterizzazione dei materiali utilizzati nella costruzione dei vari modelli, per conoscerne appieno le caratteristiche e potere valutare con maggiore attendibilità i risultati dei trattamenti. Infine, per approfondire le dinamiche di diffusione dei formulati chimici all’interno dei materiali, si sono svolte prove su travetti di malta.