Computer security is a popular topic in today's world, whether it appears in the form of a newspaper headline or a job posting. The need for students to have hands-on experience with computer security topics ...

The creation of massive data sets, commonly referred to as Big Data, has motivated the development of new database systems and techniques for managing, monitoring, querying, and analyzing data [5]. As data sizes grow, so ...

This paper describes a top down approach to teaching an introductory database systems course. The content of the course is focused around multiple web applications that act as teaching instruments and provide discussion points during ...

When it comes to transferring Big Data, there are two main areas of concern: network performance and storage performance. The primary focus of recent work has been devoted to the problems of network connectivity and ...

Several recent studies suggest that co-allocation techniques can improve user performance for distributed data retrieval in replicated grid systems. These studies demonstrate that co-allocation techniques can improve network bandwidth and network transfer times by concurrently ...