By leveraging large clusters of commodity hardware, the Cloud offers great opportunities to optimize the operative costs of software systems, but impacts significantly on the reliability of software applications. The lack of control of applications over Cloud execution environments largely limits the applicability of state-of-the-art approaches that address reliability issues by relying on heav...

Cloud service certifications (CSCs) gain increasing attention in practice as a measure against the prevailing uncertainties of cloud computing, but demand efforts for passing audit requirements. However, research findings on certifications’ effectiveness are inconclusive. This research-in-progress paper develops a research model to evaluate CSCs’ effects on two certification outcomes suggested ...

Nucleation theory [l-4] deals with that general class of phenomena which can be mapped onto the familiar condensation of a supercooled vapor and, in its present form, it heavily rests’upon the concept of clusters (droplets, grains, etc.). Although a set of basic ideas is now rather well-established, the theory still uses many phenomenological ideas and approximations so that, in order to minimi...

Cloud computing is a new technology that has been applied to education and has e nabled the development of cloud computing classrooms; however, student behavioral intentions toward cloud computing remain unclear. Most researchers have evaluated, integrated, or compared few (1 to 3) theories to examine user behavioral intentions and few have addressed additional theories or models. In this study...

The purpose of this paper is to provide a theoretical foundation for the study of Personal Cloud Computing in organizations; a foundation that would assist researchers and practitioners to develop a deeper understanding of the impacts of this type of information technology use on organizations. Currently, very little theorizing has been done about the management of Personal Cloud in organizatio...

Morse theory provides a powerful framework to study the topology of a manifold from a function de ned on it, but discrete constructions have remained elusive due to the di culty of translating smooth concepts to the discrete setting. Consider the problem of approximating the Morse-Smale (MS) complex of a Morse function from a point cloud and an associated nearest neighbor graph (NNG). While fol...

We performed a calculation of the corona colors that employed Mie theory to obtain the scattered light intensity. The scattered intensity was integrated over the visible spectrum for a number of different cloud droplet size distriubtions. The results were converted to chromaticity coordinates, convolved with the angular size of the sun, and plotted on the 1931 CIE chromaticity diagram. The resu...

Exceptional characteristics of Cloud computing has replaced all traditional computing. With reduced resource management and without in-advance investment, it has been victorious in making the IT world to migrate towards it. Microsoft announced its office package as Cloud, which can prevent people moving from Windows to Linux. As this drift is escalating in an exponential rate, the cloud environ...