Cloud computing is a steadily maturing large-scale model for providing on-demand IT
resources on a pay-as-you-go basis. This emerging paradigm has rapidly revolutionized the …

Cloud computing has been seen as an option to execute high performance computing
(HPC) applications. While traditional HPC platforms such as grid and supercomputers offer a …

Cloud federations have been seen as a possible solution for the volatility in the number of
user requests and for the anti-competitive externalities of the economies of scale in the cloud …

More and more organizations are adopting cloud-based Process-Aware Information
Systems (PAIS) to manage and execute processes in the cloud as an environment to …

Cloud Computing promises to be more flexible, usable, available and simple than Grid,
covering also much more computational needs than the ones required to carry out …

Summary The demand for Information Technology (IT) resources is constantly growing in the
scientific area. The ability to store and process increasing amounts of data has transformed …

The cloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS) model provides developers with the ability to deploy
and manage their applications remotely in the cloud and pay only for actual usage hours …

Although mobile devices became more powerful and sophisticated over the last decade,
enabling rich-multimedia services, resource constraints still hinder today's mobile …

Nowadays we are witnessing multiple changes in the way data-and compute-intensive
services are offered to the users due to the influences of cloud computing, automatic …

Cloud computing is being increasingly used for deploying and executing business
processes and particularly Service-based Business Processes (SBPs). Among other …