OPPORTUNITIES FOR USING CLOUD SERVERS IN EDUCATION

Cloud Computing in Education: The Intersection of Challenges and Opportunities

The widespread idea that traditional classroom lectures is not the best teaching approach has motivated educators to continuously seek new ways to encourage students towards active involmenent. Studies show that constructivist learners tend to explore the concepts covered in laboratory activities, resulting in a richer understanding. In this sense, we will propose to integrate simple sensor-bas...

Cloud Computing in Higher Education: Opportunities and Issues

Cloud Computing promises novel and valuable capabilities for computer users and is explored in all possible areas of information technology dependant fields. However, the literature suffers from hype and divergent definitions and viewpoints. Cloud powered higher education can gain significant flexibility and agility. Higher education policy makers must assume activist roles in the shift towards...

Personalized Pseudonyms for Servers in the Cloud

A considerable and growing fraction of servers, especially of web servers, is hosted in compute clouds. In this paper we opportunistically leverage this trend to improve privacy of clients from network attackers residing between the clients and the cloud: We design a system that can be deployed by the cloud operator to prevent a network adversary from determining which of the cloud’s tenant ser...

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Optimal Hiring of Cloud Servers

A host uses servers hired from a Cloud in order to offer certain services to paying customers. It must decide dynamically when and how many servers to hire, and when to release them, so as to minimize both the job holding costs and the server costs. Under certain assumptions, the problem can be formulated in terms of a semi-Markov decision process and the optimal hiring policy can be computed. ...