Kubernetes, a container orchestration tool for automatically installing and managing Docker
containers, has recently begun to support a federation function of multiple Docker container …

Cloud computing is becoming increasingly widespread and sophisticated. A key feature of
cloud computing is elasticity, which allows the provisioning and de-provisioning of …

This research focuses on the automatic provisioning of cloud resources by an intermediary
enterprise. This enterprise provides a virtual private cloud for a single client enterprise by …

Software maintenance is one of the major concerns in service oriented ecosystem with an
ever-increasing importance. In many cases, the cost of software maintenance is higher than …

Elasticity is a key feature in Cloud Computing where virtualized resources are provisioned
and de-provisioned via auto-scaling. However, auto-scaling in most Platform-as-a-Service …

Elasticity is a feature quite important for cloud computing and it is related to how a system
autonomously adapts its capacity over time to fit the workload variation. In this context, this …

Deduplication is the task of identifying the entities in a data set which refer to the same real
world object. Over the last decades, this problem has been largely investigated and many …

Cloud computing can offer a set of computing resources according to users' demand. It is
suitable to be used to handle flash-crowd events in Web applications due to its elasticity and …

In recent years cloud computing has established itself as the computing paradigm that
supports most distributed systems, which are essential in mobile communications, such as …

We present Dithen, a novel computation-as-a-service (CaaS) cloud platform specifically
tailored to the parallel execution of large-scale multimedia tasks. Dithen handles the …