In the landscape of cloud computing, the competition between providers has led to an ever
growing number of cloud solutions offered to consumers. The ability to run and manage …

While the number of cloud solutions is continuously increasing, the development and
operation of large-scale and distributed cloud applications are still challenging. A major …

The diversity of Cloud computing services is challenging the application developers as
various and non-standard interfaces are provided for these services. Few middleware …

The market of cloud computing encompasses an ever-growing number of cloud providers
offering a multitude of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) …

Dynamically adaptive systems (DAS) enable the continuous design and adaptation of
complex software systems, but their main focus is limited to the application itself rather than …

Cloud service abstractions are currently used to hide the underlying complexity given by
existing technologies and services, in hope of facilitating the enacting of Cloud Federations …

Autonomic Computing has largely contributed to the development of self-manageable Cloud
services. It notably allows freeing Cloud administrators of the burden of manually managing …

Online Social Networks (OSNs) have emerged as a global media for forming and shaping
opinions on a broad spectrum of topics like politics, e-commerce, sports, etc. So, research on …

Over the last few years, Autonomic Computing has been a key enabler for Cloud system's
dynamic adaptation. However, autonomously managing complex systems (such as in the …

With the rapid development and application of cloud computing, there exist plenty of clouds
that are distributed on the open Internet, decentralized in the management, evolving with …