Data centers in public, private, and hybrid cloud settings make it possible to provision virtual
machines (VMs) with unprecedented flexibility. However, purchasing, operating, and …

Modern cloud computing environments support a relatively high degree of automation in
service provisioning, which allows cloud service customers (CSCs) to dynamically acquire …

Dynamic capacity provisioning is a useful technique for handling the multi-time-scale
variations seen in Internet workloads. In this paper, we propose a novel dynamic …

Fulfilling a service request in highly dynamic service environments may require deploying a
service. Therefore, the effectiveness of service deployment systems affects initial service …

The widely discussed scientific data deluge creates a need to computationally scale out
eScience applications beyond the local desktop and cope with variable loads over time …

As IT services become more powerful and complex, service deployment gets more difficult
and expensive. Service deployment, the process of making a service ready for use, often …

This paper presents a universal ontology for smart environments aiming to overcome the
limitations of the existing ontologies. We enrich our ontology by adding new environmental …

The cloud computing landscape has recently developed into a spectrum of cloud
architectures, leading to a broad range of management tools for similar operations but …

Ambient and pervasive technologies provide several ways to assist people with special
needs in smart environments. However, the system's complexity and the size of the …

Context-aware software provides adapted services to users or other software components.
On the other hand, Autonomic Pervasive Computing uses Context to reduce the complexity …