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

Container-based virtualization is becoming a preferred choice to deploy services since it is
lightweight and supports on-demand scalability as well as availability. The Process …

The adoption of Cloud Computing as a new business model has induced the proliferation of
platform providers. However, the platform as-a-service (PaaS) concept still has several …

As part of our work, we aim to model platform resources in the context of Cloud Computing.
To do this, we opted to extend the OCCI specifications mainly dedicated for infrastructure …

Cloud Computing is a new supplement, consumption, and delivery model for IT services
based on Internet protocols. It typically involves provisioning of dynamically scalable and …

Cloud Computing is a new distributed computing paradigm that consist in provisioning of
infrastructure, software and platform resources as services. Platform services are limited to …

Enterprise architecture (EA) aims to provide management with appropriate indicators and
controls to steer and model service-oriented enterprises. Nevertheless, common enterprises …

The terms Software on demand, Software as commodity or Software as a service (SaaS),
represent the keywords of a new trend in the field of distributed computing where the main …

We investigate to what extent textures can be distinguished using conditional Markov fields
and small samples. We establish that the least square (LS) estimator is the only reasonable …

Cloud Computing is a new supplement, consumption, and delivery model for IT services
based on Internet protocols. It is increasingly used for hosting and executing applications in …