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Identifying Changes in the Cybersecurity Threat Landscape using the LDA-Web Topic Modelling Data Search Engine (2017)
Book Chapter
Al Moubayed, N., Wall, D., & McGough, A. (2017). Identifying Changes in the Cybersecurity Threat Landscape using the LDA-Web Topic Modelling Data Search Engine. In T. Tryfonas (Ed.), Human aspects of information security, privacy and trust : 5th International Conference, HAS 2017, held as part of HCI International 2017, Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 9-14, 2017, proceedings (287-295). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58460-7_19

Successful Cybersecurity depends on the processing of vast quantities of data from a diverse range of sources such as police reports, blogs, intelligence reports, security bulletins, and news sources. This results in large volumes of unstructured tex... Read More about Identifying Changes in the Cybersecurity Threat Landscape using the LDA-Web Topic Modelling Data Search Engine.

Optimal Hiring of Cloud Servers (2014)
Book Chapter
McGough, A., & Mitrani, I. (2014). Optimal Hiring of Cloud Servers. In A. Horváth, & K. Wolter (Eds.), Computer performance engineering : 11th European Workshop, EPEW 2014, Florence, Italy, September 11-12, 2014. Proceedings (1-15). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10885-8_1

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.... Read More about Optimal Hiring of Cloud Servers.

Developing a Cost-Effective Virtual Cluster on the Cloud (2012)
Book Chapter
McGough, A. S. (2012). Developing a Cost-Effective Virtual Cluster on the Cloud. In K. Vanmechelen, J. Altmann, & O. F. Rana (Eds.), Economics of grids, clouds, systems, and services: 8th International Workshop, GECON 2011, Paphos, Cyprus, December 5, 2011; Revised Selected Papers (185-197). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28675-9_14

The Cloud provides highly democratic access to computer services on a pay-per-use basis. A fact that has encouraged many researchers to adopt the Cloud for the processing of large computational tasks and data storage. This has been used in the past f... Read More about Developing a Cost-Effective Virtual Cluster on the Cloud.