The recent years have witnessed significant interest in migrating different applications into
the cloud platforms. In this context, one of the main challenges for cloud applications …

Cloud computing has attracted significant attention due to the increasing demand for low-
cost, high performance, and energy-efficient computing. Profit maximization for the cloud …

Multi-cloud is becoming a popular cloud ecosystem because it allows enterprise users to
share the workload across multiple cloud service providers to achieve high-quality services …

Cloud providers provision their heterogeneous resources such as CPUs, memory, and
storage in the form of virtual machine (VM) instances which are then allocated to the users …

Maximizing energy efficiency while ensuring the user׳ s Service-Level Agreement (SLA) is
very important for the purpose of environmental protection and profit maximization for the …

Recent trends show that deploying low cost devices with lightweight virtualisation services is
an attractive alternative for supporting the computational requirements at the network edge …

Cloud Computing is a promising approach to handle the growing needs for computation and
storage in an efficient and cost-effective manner. Towards this end, characterizing workloads …

Fully automated provisioning and deployment of applications is one of the most essential
prerequisites to make use of the benefits of Cloud computing in order to reduce the costs for …

Resource management is a vital factor for better performance in cloud systems and many
resource allocation algorithms have been studied. In this work, focusing on applications with …

Mobile applications are increasingly used by first responders, medics, researchers and other
people in the field support of their missions and tasks. These environments have very limited …