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@techreport{MiIoKoSaRyDiCiRo2013-TechReport-CloudUsagePatterns,
  abstract = {{Cloud computing is becoming an increasingly lucrative branch of the existing information and communication technologies (ICT). Enabling a debate about cloud usage scenarios can help with attracting new customers, sharing best-practices, and designing new cloud services. In contrast to previous approaches, which have attempted mainly to formalize the common service delivery models (i.e., Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service, and Software-as-a-Service), in this work, we propose a formalism for describing common cloud usage scenarios referred to as cloud usage patterns. Our formalism takes a structuralist approach allowing decomposition of a cloud usage scenario into elements corresponding to the common cloud service delivery models. Furthermore, our formalism considers several cloud usage patterns that have recently emerged, such as hybrid services and value chains in which mediators are involved, also referred to as value chains with mediators. We propose a simple yet expressive textual and visual language for our formalism, and we show how it can be used in practice for describing a variety of real-world cloud usage scenarios. The scenarios for which we demonstrate our formalism include resource provisioning of global providers of infrastructure and/or platform resources, online social networking services, user-data processing services, online customer and ticketing services, online asset management and banking applications, CRM (Customer Relationship Management) applications, and online social gaming applications.}},
  address = {{7001 Heritage Village Plaza Suite 225, Gainesville, VA 20155}},
  author = {Aleksandar Milenkoski and Alexandru Iosup and Samuel Kounev and Kai Sachs and Piotr Rygielski and Jason Ding and Walfredo Cirne and Florian Rosenberg},
  institution = {SPEC Research Group - Cloud Working Group, Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC)},
  month = {April},
  tags = {Cloud},
  title = {{Cloud Usage Patterns: A Formalism for Description of Cloud Usage Scenarios}},
  type = {{Technical Report SPEC-RG-2013-001 v.1.0.1}},
  url = {http://research.spec.org/fileadmin/user_upload/documents/rg_cloud/endorsed_publications/SPEC-RG-2013-001_CloudUsagePatterns.pdf},
  year = {2013}
}

@techreport{MiKoAvAnVi2013-TechReport-OnBenchmarkingIDSes,
  abstract = {{Modern intrusion detection systems (IDSes) for virtualized environments are deployed in the virtualization layer with components inside the virtual machine monitor (VMM) and the trusted host virtual machine (VM). Such IDSes can monitor at the same time the network and host activities of all guest VMs running on top of a VMM being isolated from malicious users of these VMs. We refer to IDSes for virtualized environments as VMM-based IDSes. In this work, we analyze state-of-the-art intrusion detection techniques applied in virtualized environments and architectures of VMM-based IDSes. Further, we identify challenges that apply specifically to benchmarking VMM-based IDSes focussing on workloads and metrics. For example, we discuss the challenge of de ning representative baseline benign workload profiles as well as the challenge of de ning malicious workloads containing attacks targeted at the VMM. We also discuss the impact of on-demand resource provisioning features of virtualized environments (e.g., CPU and memory hotplugging, memory ballooning) on IDS benchmarking measures such as capacity and attack detection accuracy. Finally, we outline future research directions in the area of benchmarking VMM-based IDSes and of intrusion detection in virtualized environments in general.}},
  address = {{7001 Heritage Village Plaza Suite 225, Gainesville, VA 20155}},
  author = {Aleksandar Milenkoski and Samuel Kounev and Alberto Avritzer and Nuno Antunes and Marco Vieira},
  institution = {SPEC Research Group - IDS Benchmarking Working Group, Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC)},
  month = {June},
  pdf = {http://research.spec.org/fileadmin/user_upload/documents/wg_ids/endorsed_publications/SPEC-RG-2013-002-BenchmarkingVMMBIDSes.pdf},
  tags = {Intrusion detection, Virtual machine introspection},
  title = {{On Benchmarking Intrusion Detection Systems in Virtualized Environments}},
  type = {{Technical Report SPEC-RG-2013-002 v.1.0}},
  year = {2013}
}