Cloud computing has been regarded as an emerging approach to provisioning resources
and managing applications. It provides attractive features, such as an on-demand model …

With the ever growing demand and popularity of cloud based services, data centers have to
urgently face energy consumption issue. Similar to other large consumers of power, data …

Mobile cloud computing (MCC) is a technique for increasing the performance of mobile apps
and reducing their energy consumption through code and data offloading. Developers may …

Adaptation is a concern for elastic software systems. Conventional methods like Brownout
try to deactivate optional computation per request after decoupling the software into different …

The few recent years have witnessed the appearance of a new kind of self-adaptive systems
called cloud based-elastic systems. These systems are particularly appealing for their ability …

Analytic methods in systems and software testing Analytic Methods in Systems and Software
Testing Page 2 Analytic Methods in Systems and Software Testing Edited by Ron S. Kenett …

Cloud computing environments and Internet datacenters consist of a multitude of servers
that process user requests. Performance and scalability can suffer greatly when the …

A major ingredient that encourages the wide adoption of Cloud Computing solution is their
ability to allocate and des-allocate resources in automatic and optimal manner according to …

With the proliferation of Cloud computing, data centers have to urgently face energy
consumption issues. Although recent efforts such as the integration of renewable energy to …

The container mechanism amortizes costs by consolidating several servers onto the same
machine, while keeping them mutually isolated. Specifically, to ensure performance …