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Are Clouds Ready to Accelerate Ad hoc Financial Simulations?
Blesson Varghese, Adam Barker
Applications employed in the financial services industry to capture and estimate a variety of risk metrics are underpinned by stochastic simulations which are data, memory and comp…
BigExcel: A Web-Based Framework for Exploring Big Data in Social Sciences
Muhammed Asif Saleem, Blesson Varghese, Adam Barker
This paper argues that there are three fundamental challenges that need to be overcome in order to foster the adoption of big data technologies in non-computer science related disc…
Cloud Benchmarking for Performance
Blesson Varghese, Ozgur Akgun, Ian Miguel +2
How can applications be deployed on the cloud to achieve maximum performance? This question has become significant and challenging with the availability of a wide variety of Virtua…
Optimal Deployment of Geographically Distributed Workflow Engines on the Cloud
Long Thai, Adam Barker, Blesson Varghese +2
When orchestrating Web service workflows, the geographical placement of the orchestration engine(s) can greatly affect workflow performance. Data may have to be transferred across…
Executing Bag of Distributed Tasks on the Cloud: Investigating the Trade-offs Between Performance and Cost
Long Thai, Blesson Varghese, Adam Barker
Bag of Distributed Tasks (BoDT) can benefit from decentralised execution on the Cloud. However, there is a trade-off between the performance that can be achieved by employing a lar…
A Semantic Web of Know-How: Linked Data for Community-Centric Tasks
Paolo Pareti, Ewan Klein, Adam Barker
This paper proposes a novel framework for representing community know-how on the Semantic Web. Procedural knowledge generated by web communities typically takes the form of natural…