Abstract Internet of Things (IoT) enables different smart environment objects to communicate
without involving humans. Recently, IoT has started a new challenge within the healthcare …

Most well-known cloud providers offer advanced support for serverless applications that
goes beyond single function invocation by enabling developers to build entire workflows …

Many researchers migrate scientific serverless workflows or function choreographies (FCs)
on Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) to benefit from its high scalability and elasticity …

Serverless computing offers a pay-per-use model with high elasticity and automatic scaling
for a wide range of applications. Since cloud providers abstract most of the underlying …

Many researchers reported considerable delay of up to a few seconds when invoking
serverless functions for the first time. This phenomenon, which is known as a cold start …

Cloud applications often benefit from deployment on serverless technology Function-as-a-
Service (FaaS), which may instantly spawn numerous functions and charges users for the …

This paper introduces several, publicly available, serverless scientific workflows Montage,
BWA, and Monte Carlo developed at a high level of abstraction using the Abstract Function …

Making serverless computing widely applicable requires detailed performance
understanding. Although contemporary benchmarking approaches exist, they report only …

Containers enable high performance and easy deployment due to their lightweight
architecture, thus facilitating resource utilization in edge computing nodes. Secure container …

The development of cloud-connected Internet of Things (IoT) systems is becoming more and
more affordable, even to novice programmers, thanks to dedicated cloud platforms that …