Elastic resource provisioning is a key feature of cloud computing, allowing users to scale up
or down resource allocation for their applications at run-time. To date, most practical …

Elasticity (on-demand scaling) of applications is one of the most important features of cloud
computing. This elasticity is the ability to adaptively scale resources up and down in order to …

Abstract Service-oriented architecture (SOA), workflow, the Semantic Web, and Grid
computing are key enabling information technologies in the development of increasingly …

Virtual machine (VM) based virtual infrastructure has been adopted widely in cloud
computing environment for elastic resource provisioning. Performing resource management …

Resource provisioning based on virtual machine (VM) has been widely accepted and
adopted in cloud computing environments. A key problem resulting from using static …

Background High-throughput transcriptomic data generated by microarray experiments is
the most abundant and frequently stored kind of data currently used in translational …

An Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider is usually assumed to own a large data centre
with significant computational resources. For a small or medium sized Internet Data Centre …

The drive toward smart cities alongside the increasing adoption of personal sensors is
leading to big sensor data, which is so large and complex that traditional methods for …

Today, healthcare providers are experiencing explosive growth in data. Although the
dramatic increase in the use of medical imaging technologies has been a major contributor …

The advancement of the Internet of Things and wireless sensors has paved the way for the
development of new services for next-generation healthcare systems to enable superior …