University of Massachusetts, Amherst


The team at the University of Massachusets Amherst Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR) are using a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant and the Google/IBM cloud to learn more about world relationships.

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Research Projects

Learning Word Relationship Using TupleFlow
This project focuses on how researchers at the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR) are using the CluE infrastructure to learn more about word relationships. These relationships are not labeled explicitly in text and are quite varied; by exploiting these relationships, this project will help lead to a more effective ranking of web-retrieval results.

Resources

Paper: The Case for Enterprise Ready Virtual Private Clouds PDF
By Timothy Wood and Prashant Shenoy, University of Massachusetts Amherst;
Alexandre Gerber, KK Ramakrishnan, and Jacobus Van der Merwe, AT&T Labs - Research.

Abstract: Cloud computing platforms such as Amazon EC2 provide customers with flexible, on demand resources at low cost. However, while existing offerings are useful for providing basic computation and storage resources, they fail to provide the security and network controls that many customers would like. In this work we argue that cloud computing has a great potential to change how enterprises run and manage their IT systems, but that to achieve this, more comprehensive control over network resources and security need to be provided for users. Towards this goal, we propose CloudNet, a cloud platform architecture which utilizes virtual private networks to securely and seamlessly link cloud and enterprise sites.