Cloud computing has grown to become a popular distributed computing service offered by
commercial providers. More recently, edge and fog computing resources have emerged on …

In recent years, a variety of computational sites and resources have emerged, and users
often have access to multiple resources that are distributed. These sites are heterogeneous …

Contemporary cloud services are constructed from different types of software and deployed
on multiple cloud infrastructures, which offer various configuration options, and can change …

Workflows play an important role in expressing and executing scientific applications. In
recent years, a variety of computational sites and resources have emerged, and users often …

Scientific workflows are increasingly gaining attention as both data and compute resources
are getting bigger, heterogeneous, and distributed. Many scientific workflows are both …

This paper presents a study about the performance of Quality Degradation Indicators (QDIs)
developed to diagnose and quantify the effect of time-varying degradations pertaining to the …

The data produced by sensors are expected to grow exponentially in the next several years.
In particular, e-science applications need to move big data for remote analysis or data …

In cloud environments, the use of data-intensive applications is becoming more common
than ever. For efficient computation, data-intensive applications require a bigger volume of …

Workflows continue to play an important role in expressing and deploying scientific
applications. In recent years, a wide variety of computational sites have emerged with …

Cloud computing provides beneficial services to users, enabling them to share large
amounts of information, employ Storage Nodes (SN), utilise Computing Nodes (CN) and …