At present, hundreds of cloud vendors in the global market provide various services based
on a customer's requirements. All cloud vendors are not the same in terms of the number of …

Many organizations are currently seeking to contract services from cloud computing rather
than owing the possessions to supply those services. Due to the fast expansion of cloud …

Cloud technology connects a network of virtualized computers that are dynamically
provisioned as computing resources, based on negotiated agreements between service …

As a result of the proliferation of cloud services in recent years, several service providers
now offer services that are functionally identical but have different levels of service, known …

The use of cloud computing in various data-centric applications such as wireless sensor
networks (WSN) has attracted a large number of users because the cloud integrates various …

Cloud services represent an information revolution that is changing the computer usage
habits of one billion people. The purposes for which consumers intend to use a cloud …

In cloud computing, service providers and service consumers often pursue conflicting
benefits. The task-scheduling problem in particular requires the consideration of all …

In general, objective and subjective QoS assessment data forms the major data source for
service evaluations. Especially, in the most dynamic service-oriented computing ecosystem …

With the outspread expansion of cloud computing, identifying an appropriate cloud service
provider (CSP) needs careful scrutinization and a rational ranking method. Multi-criteria …

With rapidly increasing number of cloud computing resources deployed over the Internet as
on-demand services, more and more service-oriented solutions are available for selection to …