Software programming is one of the key abilities for the development of Computational
Thinking (CT) skills in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) …

In the field of cloud computing, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provides virtualized on-
demand computing resources on a pay-per-use model. IaaS Cloud differs from traditional …

Multimedia conferencing is the real-time exchange of multimedia content between multiple
parties. It is the basis of several interactive multiuser applications, such as distance learning …

Cloud Service Broker federates multiple Cloud Service Providers into a single entity to
customers. The benefits that can be enjoyed by Cloud Service Consumer are flexibility, ease …

The continuous growth of cloud computing environment is supported by the automated
provisioning of cloud services, which allows cloud users to dynamically procure and deploy …

In the cloud environment, it brings better reliability and robustness with geographically
distributed datacenters. As the growth of large-scale applications in geo-distributed cloud …

Abstract As Cloud Computing evolves, both customers and Cloud Service Providers are
starting to require Intercloud scenarios where different clouds have to interact each other …

The OCCIware project aims at building a comprehensive, coherent while modular model-
driven toolchain for managing any kinds of cloud resources, especially Data Center as a …

A cloud's elasticity which makes it attractive is limited to its physical resources. As a measure
to prevent this limitation from being a hindrance to the attraction, the cloud inter-operates …

In the pool of cloud providers that are currently available there is a lack of standardised APIs
and brokering tools to effectively distribute high throughput calculations among them …