It is common sense that cloud-native applications (CNA) are intentionally designed for the
cloud. Although this understanding can be broadly used it does not guide and explain what …

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

Internet of Things (IoT) devices are usually considered external application dependencies
that only provide data or process and execute simple instructions. The recent emergence of …

Internet of Things (IoT) devices are usually considered as external dependencies that only
provide data, or process and execute simple instructions. Recently, IoT devices with …

Abstract Internet of Things (IoT), one of the key research topics in recent years, together with
concepts from Fog Computing, brings rapid advancements in Smart City, Monitoring …

Enabling a Smart City Application Ecosystem: Requirements and Architectural Aspects Page 1
Internet of Things, People, and Processes Editor: Schahram Dustdar • dustdar@dsg.tuwien.ac.at …

Applications in the Internet of Things (IoT) domain need to manage and integrate huge
amounts of heterogenous devices. Usually these devices are treated as external …

For automating the deployment of composite applications, typically, declarative deployment
models are used. Depending on the context, the deployment of an application has to fulfill …

This article discusses the intrinsic challenges of delivering applications in a smart city
application ecosystem and introduces the smart city operating system (SCOS), a key …

In the large-scale clustering resource pool as human-centric cloud computing, peer load
balance not only improves overall system efficiency, but also saves energy. As various …