Cloud computing is a business paradigm, where cloud providers offer resources (eg,
storage, computing, network) and cloud consumers use them after accepting a specific …

Selecting an appropriate cloud service provider (CSP) is one of the most important
challenges affecting sourcing performance. Although cloud computing (CC) relies on the …

Abstract Cloud Service Brokerage (CSB) is an emerging technology that has become
popular with cloud computing. CSB is a middleman providing value added services …

Despite its many successes, requirement engineering (RE) still presents a series of
challenges and limitations. Many of the challenges identified almost a decade ago are still …

The ICT industry, and specifically critical sectors such as healthcare, transportation, energy
and government require as mandatory the compliance of the ICT systems and services with …

Abstract Service engineering is an emerging interdisciplinary subject which crosscuts
business modeling, knowledge management and economic analysis. To satisfy service …

A particular problem of cloud environments is the assurance of a certain level of service
quality. The problem is escalated in the case of building support platforms for using multiple …

Cloud computing has burst into the trend that a cloud application is developed and provided
by a specific cloud provider in form of SaaS (Software as a Service). One limitation of this …

In our previous work, we have introduced various Service Value Broker (SVB) patterns
which integrate business modeling, knowledge management and economic analysis. We …

Rapid growth of various types of cloud services and web APIs is creating new opportunities
for innovative enterprise application. As a result, organizations are beginning to rely on …