This document contains summaries of 8 papers related to distributed systems, cloud computing, and information security. The papers cover topics such as stochastic modeling of data center performance in cloud systems, cost-effective privacy preservation of intermediate data sets in the cloud, capacity of data collection in wireless sensor networks, denial-of-service attack detection using multivariate correlation analysis, dynamic resource allocation using virtual machines in cloud computing, secure outsourcing of large-scale systems of linear equations to the cloud, and deanonymization attacks against anonymized social networks.