Cloud computing is becoming more and more an essential component in the cyberspace
system. In this context, Cloud providers offer a multitude of resources and services that …

The cloud computing paradigm enables the development of applications that can elastically
react to changes in their environment by autonomously provisioning and releasing …

The evolution of cloud computing is driving the next generation of medical imaging systems.
However, privacy and security concerns have been consistently regarded as the major …

Cloud Computing is an emerging paradigm in Information Technologies (IT). One of its
major assets is the provisioning of resources based on pay-as-you-go model. Cloud …

We propose an algorithm for the migration of cloud applications' components between
different providers, possibly changing their service level between IaaS and PaaS. Our …

In PaaS model, providers have different proprietary APIs, which make developers locked
inside a specific platform and not able to easily port their applications among different …

The production of huge amount of data and the emergence of cloud computing have
introduced new requirements for data management. Many applications need to interact with …

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 …

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 …