Moving existing legacy systems to cloud platforms is a difficult and high cost process that
may involve technical and non-technical resources and challenges. There is evidence that …

Legacy systems are business-critical systems that have been developed over the past
decades. These systems are inflexible and have many issues. Therefore, they need to be …

With the continued appeal and adoption of cloud computing, an assessment of cloud run
costs and migration affordability prior to adoption would assist enterprises that have several …

The migration towards Cloud environments is still hindered by several barriers. One of them
is the low portability of the applications that are consuming Cloud services. This paper …

The cloud computing literature provides various ways to utilise cloud services, each with a
different viewpoint and focus and mostly using heterogeneous technical-centric terms. This …

Migration to the cloud computing environment is a strategic organizational decision. Using a
reliable framework for migration ensures managers to mitigate risks in the cloud computing …

Many organizations depend on software systems to accomplish their daily tasks, but these
systems need to be maintained and evolved to cope with various changes and …

The cloud computing paradigm encompasses several key differentiating elements and
technologies, tackling a number of inefficiencies, limitations and problems that have been …

In this paper, we present an engine based on semantic technologies aimed at supporting
cloud applications developers, in the tasks of discovering functionalities, APIs, and …

Cloud computing has leveraged new software development and provisioning approaches
by changing the way computing, storage and networking resources are purchased and …