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Our power grid infrastructure is built to support electrical appliances where the electrical needs are simple. With energy demand getting higher and more complex, smart power grids are the way of the future. With traditional power grids, we only send electricity to homes without any feedback. However, in smart power grids, we can create a new communication channel where we can gather feedback from...
Open-source cloud management often has a high degree of centralization and limited support of power management. This paper develops a hybrid approach that combines suspending idle server and load-balancing of virtual machines to minimize energy consumption in the cloud environment. We have conducted a series of experiments evaluating the performance of the hybrid approach under different synthetic...
With the growing use of the Web in university education, increasingly student learning activity is happening outside of the classroom. Consequently it is becoming more and more difficult for teachers to know how their students are going about the learning process. This is of particular concern for the teaching of programming as students typically find this task hard and programming courses often experience...
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