Virtualization Using Docker Containers: For Reproducible Environments and Containerized Applications

Software Development practices which evolved in recent years have fundamentally changed the development and management of applications in environment. This evolution includes the Microservices architecture where the applications with large monolithic code has transformed into collections of many small services which are loosely coupled together. The evolution of microservices has changed the requirements of underlying infrastructure, technologies, and tools which were once used to manage the applications. These services improved the agility of delivering software which are portable across all the platforms and infrastructures. Previously large workloads have been processed in large servers which are provisioned by Virtual Machines. But in today’s application development environment these large applications have been divided into small applications which collectively run across a collection of commodity hardware. Containers have become handful in running these applications on the same OS as they share the same kernel and hardware. In this paper, I will be discussing about new container technology which is Docker and I will be presenting you how this technology has overcome the previous issues which includes building and deploying large applications. This paper also discusses about the security features of Docker which provides an additional layer of isolation and security for application services

Still the Law of Nations: Legitimate Expectations and the Sovereigntist Turn in International Investment

In the late twentieth century, States around the world struck a Faustian bargain. They concluded thousands of treaties among themselves, empowering private arbitrators to hear disputes between States and foreign investors. States surrendered some measure of sovereignty in order to assure investors that their governments would not have the last word regarding the treatment of foreign investments. Disputes that were once waged among States are now routinely brought before investor-State arbitral tribunals. Chief Justice John Roberts of the United States Supreme Court observed that in consenting to investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS), a State grants to private adjudicators not necessarily of its own choosing . .. a power it typically reserves to its own courts, if it grants it at all: the power to sit in judgment on its sovereign acts

Evidential Reasoning for Multimodal Fusion in Human Computer Interaction

Fusion of information from multiple modalities in Human Computer Interfaces (HCI) has gained a lot of attention in recent years, and has far reaching implications in many areas of human-machine interaction. However, a major limitation of current HCI fusion systems is that the fusion process tends to ignore the semantic nature of modalities, which may reinforce, complement or contradict each other over time. Also, most systems are not robust in representing the ambiguity inherent in human gestures. In this work, we investigate an evidential reasoning based approach for intelligent multimodal fusion, and apply this algorithm to a proposed multimodal system consisting of a Hand Gesture sensor and a Brain Computing Interface (BCI). There are three major contributions of this work to the area of human computer interaction. First, we propose an algorithm for reconstruction of the 3D hand pose given a 2D input video. Second, we develop a BCI using Steady State Visually Evoked Potentials, and show how a multimodal system consisting of the two sensors can improve the efficiency and the complexity of the system, while retaining the same levels of accuracy. Finally, we propose an semantic fusion algorithm based on Transferable Belief Models, which can successfully fuse information from these two sensors, to form meaningful concepts and resolve ambiguity. We also analyze this system for robustness under various operating scenarios