Modern cloud computing environments support a relatively high degree of automation in
service provisioning, which allows cloud service customers (CSCs) to dynamically acquire …

Currently, the data to be explored and exploited by computing systems increases at an
exponential rate. The massive amount of data or so-called “Big Data” put pressure on …

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 deployment, monitoring and configuration of applications in Fog Computing are
becoming quite challenging, due to heterogeneity of mobile and IoT devices involved, data …

Cross Cloud deployment of applications allows for many additional benefits, like using the
best Cloud provider for a given application component, increasing the reliability owing to the …

The cloud-based application component placement problem is complex and often tackled
with heuristics to find near-optimal solutions maintaining the application's performance and …

Cloud computing is an evolving paradigm whose adoption has been increasing over the last
few years. This fact has led to the growth of the cloud computing market, together with fierce …

Cloud Continuum is the paradigm that unifies and exploits resources from far edge to public
and private cloud offerings, as well as processing nodes with significant capacity in …

In the field of edge-cloud computing environments, there is a continuous quest for new and
simplified methods to automate the deployment and runtime adaptation to application …

The current IT market is more and more dominated by the “cloud continuum”. In the
“traditional” cloud, computing resources are typically homogeneous in order to facilitate …