Operational limitations at different levels of a supply chain network lead to the development
of sustainable partnership structures. In almost all industries, in supply, manufacturing …

Cloud federation helps cloud providers to scale up by renting resources from other providers
when the workload increased. Moreover, cloud providers with idle or underutilized …

We present an architecture enabling a network operator to federate IT and network
resources owned by private third-party actors located at the edge of the network. The …

Abstract Conventional Cloud Computing system possess some limitations. It is difficult for
users to switch between various cloud providers due to lack of a standard architecture …

A cloud federation is a platform, on which a number of cloud service providers (CSPs) builds
an alliance and cooperates to share cloud resources. It is an appropriate way to address …

The number of computing resources required for high‐volume applications is ever‐
increasing. As far as the users' requests generate workload variations over time and the …

Purpose The concept of business process (BP) as a service is a new solution in enterprises
for the purpose of using specific BPs. BPs represent combinations of software services that …

The use of cloud computing to implement business processes is becoming increasingly
important because users can benefit from the economic and technical advantages of this …