Academic Articles & Research Papers

The Breakdown of Coordinated Decision Making in Distributed Systems

OBJECTIVE: This article aims to explore the nature and resolution of breakdowns in coordinated decision making in distributed safety-critical systems. BACKGROUND: In safety-critical domains, people with different roles and responsibilities ...

Cooperative load balancing in distributed systems

Abstract A serious difficulty in concurrent programming of a distributed system is how to deal with scheduling and load balancing of such a system which may consist of heterogeneous computers. In this paper, we formulate the static load‐bal...

A hybrid monitor for behavior and performance analysis of distributed systems

The authors describe a hybrid monitor for measuring the performance and observing the behavior of distributed systems during execution. They emphasize data collection, analysis and presentation of execution data. A special hardware support,...

Configuration programming-a framework for the development of distributable systems

A brief description is given of the author's use of configuration programming in the conic environment, and an assessment is made of the benefits of such an approach. Based on this experience, the author extends the notions of configuration...

Experiences with Distributed Systems

The Chubby lock service for loosely-coupled distributed systems

We describe our experiences with the Chubby lock service, which is intended to provide coarse-grained locking as well as reliable (though low-volume) storage for a loosely-coupled distributed system. Chubby provides an interface much like a...

Diagnosis and Communication in Distributed Systems

This paper discusses diagnosis problems in distributed systems within the context of a language-theoretic discrete event formalism. A distributed system is seen as a system with multiple spatially separated sites with each site having a dia...

Experience with Grapevine: the growth of a distributed system

Grapevine is a distributed, replicated system that provides message delivery, naming, authentication, resource location, and access control services in an internet of computers.The system, described in a previous paper [1], was designed and...

Monitoring distributed systems

The monitoring of distributed systems involves the collection, interpretation, and display of information concerning the interactions among concurrently executing processes. This information and its display can support the debugging, testin...

CYBERSECURITY NEEDS FOR SMES

Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) all over the world are the very heart of economic growth.SMEs drive economic growth worldwide.However, unlike most behemoths, they lack the resources and experience to tackle cybersecurity threats c...

Cybersecurity

In today’s hyperconnected world, digital threats lurk in every corner of cyberspace. This comprehensive guide equips you with essential knowledge to identify, mitigate, and counter cyber threats, navigating the increasingly dangerous digita...

The cybersecurity dilemma game: moving cybersecurity beyond solutionism

Faced with ubiquitous cyber-attacks, the field of cybersecurity is scrambling to develop both technical solutions as indicated by incessant streams of updates, and social solutions as indicated by a surge of awareness campaigns. However, it...

Cybersecurity and Sustainable Development

Sustainability and Cyber security are essential to gain the competitive edge in the firms and development of overall economies. This needs to develop Trust in Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Keeping in view the current trend...

Cybersecurity

The beginning of this chapter briefly presents a few examples of scams and hacks that we have all experienced. The AT&T example is taken from a letter the author received explaining that some personal data was illegally obtained and how alo...

The Impact of China on Cybersecurity: Fiction and Friction

Exaggerated fears about the paralysis of digital infrastructure and the loss of competitive advantage contribute to a spiral of mistrust in U.S.-China relations. In every category of putative Chinese cyber threat, there are also considerabl...

INTERNATIONAL CYBERSECURITY EXPERIENCE AND CYBERSECURITY MODELS

In the article, the authors explore the state's capabilities in cybersecurity issues directly related to foreign national security experience. The mechanisms of public administration will be considered in order to improve cybersecurity in t...

WHAT IS CYBERSECURITY AND WHAT CYBERSECURITY SKILLS ARE EMPLOYERS SEEKING?

With nearly 100% of our world's information stored on computers and databases, the threat of compromising this information looms as arguably the most critical risk that we must deal with as a global society.Rising from this threat is a crit...

Information technology governance and cybersecurity at the board level

Security breaches are very costly in the USA, followed very closely by the Middle East. Shareholders and investors demand that their firms mitigate all kinds of risks, and it is the responsibility of the BOD to gain and maintain their confi...

Learning and Evolution in Neural Networks

This article describes simulations on populations of neural networks that both evolve at the population level and learn at the individual level. Unlike other simulations, the evolutionary task (finding food in the environment) and the learn...

Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks

This 1996 book is a reliable account of the statistical framework for pattern recognition and machine learning. With unparalleled coverage and a wealth of case-studies this book gives valuable insight into both the theory and the enormously...