The number of both service providers operating in the cloud market and customers
consuming cloud-based services is constantly increasing, proving that the cloud computing …

Currently, the data to be explored and exploited by computing systems increases at an
exponential rate. The massive amount of data or so-called “Big Data” put pressure on …

The growth in the number and types of cloud-based services offered to IT customers is
supported by the constant entry of new actors in the market and the consolidation of …

With the rapidly growing popularity of cloud services, the cloud computing faces critical
challenges to orchestrate the deployment and operation of cloud applications on …

The Cloud offers enhanced flexibility in the management of resources for any kind of
application while it promises the reduction of its cost as well as its infinite scalability. In this …

The orchestration of application components across heterogeneous cloud providers is a
problem that has been tackled using various approaches, some of which led to the creation …

Big Data and IoT applications require highly-scalable database management system
(DBMS), preferably operated in the cloud to ensure scalability also on the resource level. As …

Cloud computing provides ubiquitous networked access to a shared and virtualised pool of
computing capabilities that can be provisioned with minimal management effort. Cloud …

Cloud computing and its computing as an utility paradigm provides on-demand resources
allowing the seamless adaptation of applications to fluctuating demands. While the Cloud's …

The database landscape has significantly evolved over the last decade as cloud computing
enables to run distributed databases on virtually unlimited cloud resources. Hence, the …