Cloud service description (CSD) becomes an active area which attracts the attention of
many research organizations, while no standard CSD exists. This lack of standardization is …

Scalability is said to be one of the major advantages brought by the cloud paradigm and,
more specifically, the one that makes it different to an" advanced outsourcing" solution …

Clouds have changed the way we think about IT infrastructure management. Providers of
software-based services are now able to outsource the operation of the hardware platforms …

The basic idea behind cloud computing is that resource providers offer elastic resources to
end users. In this paper, we intend to answer one key question to the success of cloud …

The Cloud phenomenon brings along the cost-saving benefit of dynamic scaling. As a result,
the question of efficient resource scaling arises. Prediction is necessary as the virtual …

Cloud computing is a promising IT paradigm which enables the Internet's evolution into a
global market of collaborating services. Cloud computing semantic interoperability plays a …

Elasticity in cloud computing is a complex problem, regarding not only resource elasticity but
also quality and cost elasticity, and most importantly, the relations among the three …

Cloud computing [23] is a promising paradigm for the provisioning of IT services. Cloud
computing infrastructures, such as those offered by the RESERVOIR project, aim to facilitate …

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NoSQL databases focus on analytical processing of large scale datasets, offering increased
scalability over commodity hardware. One of their strongest features is elasticity, which …