Nowadays, cloud computing attracted wide attention as it can deliver IT services and
resources on a demand basis over the Internet. Load balancing is a key challenge in cloud …

In an era of complex networked parallel heterogeneous systems, simulating independently
only parts, components, or attributes of a system-under-design is a cumbersome, inaccurate …

Cloud computing service-oriented simulation frameworks are very important tools for
modeling and simulating the dynamic behavior of cloud-based software systems. However …

Cloud computing and its service models, such as Platform as a Service (PaaS), have
changed the way that computing resources are allocated to Information and …

Task graphs provide a simple way to describe scientific workflows (sets of tasks with
dependencies) that can be executed on both HPC clusters and in the cloud. An important …

Experimenting with novel algorithms and configurations for the automatic management of
Cloud Computing infrastructures is expensive and time consuming on real systems. Cloud …