With the emergence of Docker, it becomes easier to encapsulate applications and their
dependencies into lightweight Linux containers and make them available to the world by …

Cloud computing is currently the most popular model to offer and access computational
resources and services. Many cloud providers use the REST architectural style …

Workflow engines are commonly used to orchestrate large-scale scientific computations
such as, but not limited to weather, climate, natural disasters, food safety, and territorial …

Today, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is one of the leaders among cloud APIs. Although it
was established only five years ago, GCP has gained notable expansion due to its suite of …

The democratization of computational resources, thanks to the advent of public, private, and
hybrid clouds, changed the rules in many science fields. For decades, one of the effort of …

Context Open standards are urgently needed for enabling software interoperability in Cloud
Computing. Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) provides a set of best design principles …

Cloud computing has emerged as the main paradigm for hosting and delivering computing
resources as services over Internet. It provides a delivery model for computing resources at …

To explain specific phenomena, scientists perform a sequence of tasks, eg, to gather,
analyze and interpret data, forming a scientific workflow. Depending on the complexity of the …

Autonomic Computing has largely contributed to the development of self-manageable Cloud
services. It notably allows freeing Cloud administrators of the burden of manually managing …

With the advent of cloud computing, different cloud providers with heterogeneous cloud
services (compute, storage, network, applications, etc.) and their related Application …