Benchmarking the performance of public cloud providers is a common research topic.
Previous work has already extensively evaluated the performance of different cloud …

Abstract Business Process Management is called agile when it is able to react quickly and
adequately to internal and external events. Agile Business Process Management requires …

This paper is a contribution towards interpretability of the deep learning models in different
applications of time-series. We propose a temporal attention layer that is capable of …

The Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) has emerged as de-facto standard for
business processes implementation. This language is designed to be extensible for …

In service-oriented computing, multiple services often exist to perform similar functions. In
these situations, it is essential to have good ways for qualitatively ranking the services. In …

With the development of smart phones, more and more mobile phone malwares have came
out in the market especially on the popular platforms such as Android, which can potentially …

Mobile devices are getting more pervasive, and it is becoming increasingly necessary to
integrate web services into applications that run on these devices. We introduce a novel …

A challenging problem for users of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds is selecting
cloud providers, regions, and instance types cost-optimally for a given desired service level …

Since the Internet of Services (IoS) is becoming reality, there is an inherent need for novel
service selection mechanisms, which work in spite of large numbers of alternative services …

Each cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider offers its own set of virtual machine
(VM) images and hypervisors. This creates a vendor lock-in problem when cloud users try to …