Resource management in a cloud environment is a hard problem, due to: the scale of
modern data centers; the heterogeneity of resource types and their interdependencies; the …

Large‐scale scientific problems are often modeled as workflows. The ever‐growing data
and compute requirements of these applications has led to extensive research on how to …

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

There are two actors in cloud computing environment cloud providers and cloud users. On
one hand cloud providers hold enormous computing resources in the cloud large data …

User satisfaction as a significant antecedent to user loyalty has been highlighted by many
researchers in market based literatures. SLA violation as an important factor can decrease …

Cloud computing has emerged as the preeminent computing platform for multiple
enterprises. All scales of organizations adopt cloud services to leverage cloud technology to …

Abstract Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing is an emerging commercial
infrastructure paradigm under which clients (users) can lease resources when and for how …

With the increasing adoption of Cloud Computing, we observe an increasing need for Cloud
Benchmarks, in order to assess the performance of Cloud infrastructures and software …

Pilot-Job systems play an important role in supporting distributed scientific computing. They
are used to execute millions of jobs on several cyberinfrastructures worldwide, consuming …

Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud technology has attracted much attention from users
who have demands on large amounts of computing resources. Current IaaS clouds …