With greater flexibility and less infrastructure investment, cloud computing offers end
customers scalable, virtualised on-demand services. These services are offered via the …

Cloud computing possesses the merit of being a faster and cost-effective platform in terms of
executing scientific workflow applications. Scientific workflow applications are found in …

Hybrid Cloud environments allow the utilization of local resources in private Clouds with
resources from public Clouds when needed. Such environments represent systems with …

Computing is evolving toward a paradigm that consists of commoditized services supplied in
a way similar to conventional utilities. A variety of computing paradigms have been …

Abstract Energy-related Denial of Service (DoS) attacks have the potential to impact not only
the quality or availability of services provided by large-scale data center (DC) infrastructures …

This chapter presents the basics of cloud computing and its related advances. Computing
itself, to be considered absolutely virtualized, must give personal computers working from …

For the primary purpose of this research, key emphasis is on comprehensively reviewing
existing literature on the usage of cloud computing simulators. For concluding this research …

Towards Inter-organizational Decision Support in Supply Chains through Cloud-based Discrete
Event Simulation – A Conceptual Page 1 Towards Inter-organizational Decision Support in …

Modelling and Simulation (M&S) represents one of the fundamental methods to design and
study complex systems in many industrial and scientific domains such as transport, energy …

Load balancing and task scheduling are the main challenges in Cloud Computing. Existing
load balancing algorithms have a drawback in considering the capacity of virtual machines …