The increasing demand for cloud computing has shifted business toward a huge demand for
cloud services, which offer platform, software, and infrastructure for the day-to-day use of …

The vendor lock‐in is a prominent issue in cloud computing. It is caused by cloud providers
who offer proprietary services, which hinders the cloud interoperability. Client‐centric …

This paper describes a part of current research work on an automated cell tracking (ACT)
project with the aim of tracking the movement of representative cells in order to determine …

Web service composition allows developers to create and deploy applications that take
advantage of the capabilities of service-oriented computing. Such applications provide the …

Inter-connected cloud computing is an inherent evolution of Cloud Computing. Numerous
benefits provided by connecting clouds have garnered attraction from the academic as well …

PaaS is a Cloud computing service that provides a computing platform to develop, run, and
manage applications without the complexity of infrastructure maintenance. SMEs are …

Platform as a service (PaaS) is one of the Cloud computing services that provide a
computing platform in the Cloud, allowing customers to develop, run, and manage web …

The diversity in the way in which different cloud providers offer their services, give their
SLAs, present their QoS, or support different technologies complicates the portability and …

The diversity in the way different cloud providers offer their services, give their SLAs, present
their QoS, support different technologies, etc., complicates the portability and interoperability …

Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) extends cloud services to the resource-constrained mobile
devices. Compute-intensive mobile applications can be augmented using cloud either in …