A brief review of the Internet history reveals the fact that the Internet evolved after the
formation of primarily independent networks. Similarly, interconnected clouds, also called …

Cloud technology connects a network of virtualized computers that are dynamically
provisioned as computing resources, based on negotiated agreements between service …

The adoption of the Cloud computing concept and its market development are nowadays
hindered by the problem of application, data and service portability between Clouds. Open …

The increasing demand for cloud computing has shifted business toward a huge demand for
cloud services, which offer platform, software, and infrastructure for the day-to-day use of …

Cloud services and applications prove indispensable amid today's modern utility-based
computing. The cloud has displayed a disruptive and growing impact on everyday …

The first hurdle for carrying out research on cloud computing is the development of a
suitable research platform. While cloud computing is primarily commercially-driven and …

Reference architectures (RAs) are useful tools to understand and build complex systems,
and many cloud providers and software product vendors have developed versions of them …

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

This paper describes a new method for estimating optical flow that strikes a balance
between the flexibility of local dense computations and the robustness and accuracy of …

The adoption of Cloud computing as a new business model has induced the proliferation of
several Cloud service providers. Cloud end users are then faced with choosing the …