As computing infrastructure expands, resource management in a large, heterogeneous, and
distributed environment becomes a challenging task. In a cloud environment, with …

Cloud resource provisioning is a challenging job that may be compromised due to
unavailability of the expected resources. Quality of Service (QoS) requirements of workloads …

Efficient provisioning of resources is a challenging problem in cloud computing
environments due to its dynamic nature and the need for supporting heterogeneous …

Cloud computing systems promise to offer subscription-oriented, enterprise-quality
computing services to users worldwide. With the increased demand for delivering services to …

The recent emergence and success of cloud-based services has empowered remote
sensing and made it very possible. Cloud-assisted remote sensing (CARS) enables …

A key factor of win–win cloud economy is how to trade off between the application
performance from customers and the profit of cloud providers. Current researches on cloud …

The rapidly rising computing workloads in data centers (DCs) have necessitated new
approaches to ensure effective performance and resilience that minimize the associated …

As an increasing number of traditional applications migrated to the cloud, achieving
resource management and performance optimization in such a dynamic and uncertain …

To provision IT solutions with reduced operating expenses, many businesses are moving
their IT infrastructures into public data centers or are starting to build their own private data …

User satisfaction as a significant antecedent to user loyalty has been highlighted by many
researchers in market based literatures. SLA violation as an important factor can decrease …