Big Data has gained much attention from the academia and the IT industry. In the digital and
computing world, information is generated and collected at a rate that rapidly exceeds the …

In the virtualization area, replication has been considered as a mechanism to provide high
availability. A high-availability system should be active most of the time, and this is the …

In this paper, we review the background and state-of-the-art of big data. We first introduce
the general background of big data and review related technologies, such as could …

Recent technological advancements have led to a deluge of data from distinctive domains
(eg, health care and scientific sensors, user-generated data, Internet and financial …

Distributed and Cloud Computing: From Parallel Processing to the Internet of Things offers
complete coverage of modern distributed computing technology including clusters, the grid …

The utility computing model introduced by cloud computing combined with the rich set of
cloud infrastructure services offers a very viable alternative to traditional servers and …

In cloud computing, with full control of the underlying infrastructures, cloud providers can
flexibly place user jobs on suitable physical servers and dynamically allocate computing …

Elasticity is the ability of a cloud infrastructure to dynamically change the amount of
resources allocated to a running service as load changes. We build an autonomous …

Large scale data sets are difficult to manage. Difficulties include capture, storage, search,
analysis, and visualization of large data. In particular, clustering of large scale data has …

The water utility sector is subject to stringent legislation, seeking to address both the
evolution of practices within the chemical/pharmaceutical industry, and the safeguarding of …