Cloud computing services have evolved to a sourcing option that promises a wide range of
benefits, such as increased scalability and flexibility at reduced costs. However, many …

Business Intelligence systems use information technology to supply integrated management
support with data coming from several sources of structured and unstructured data. The …

Sammon's mapping is an important non-linear projection technique that has been widely
applied to the visualization of high dimensional data. However when dealing with sparse …

An increasing number of organisations want to migrate their existing applications to cloud
environments to benefit from the increased scalability, flexibility, and cost reduction …

Many SaaS providers nowadays want to leverage the cloud's capabilities also for their
existing applications, for example, to enable sound scalability and cost-effectiveness. This …

Abstract Defining Cloud Computing can be difficult, as each organization often has its own
spin on the definition. Despite being hard to define, Gartner Research named Cloud …

Cloud Computing is a relatively new paradigm with the potential to transform how IT
hardware and software are designed and purchased. Computing is no longer purchased as …

This dissertation represents a modeling and simulation approach toward determining
whether distributed computing architectures (eg, Cloud Computing) require state of the art …