Cloud Computing

Part I: General Principles

The Rise of Cloud Computing in the Era of Emerging Networked Society
Bhaskar Prasad Rimal and Ian Lumb

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, How Do I Dimension My Cloud After All?
Rafaelli Coutinho, Yuri Frota, Kary Ocaña, Daniel de Oliveira and Lúcia Drummond

A Taxonomy of Adaptive Resource Management Mechanisms in Virtual Machines: Recent Progress and Challenges
Jos é Simão and Luís Veiga

Part II: Science Cloud

Exploring Cloud Elasticity in Scientific Applications
Guilherme Galante and Rodrigo Da Rosa Righi

Clouds and Reproducibility: A Way to Go to Scientific Experiments?
Ary Henrique Morais de Oliveira, Daniel de Oliveira and Marta Mattoso

Big Data Analytics in Healthcare: A Cloud-Based Framework for Generating Insights
Ashiq Anjum, Sanna Aizad, Bilal Arshad, Moeez Subhani, Dominic Davies-Tagg, Tariq Abdullah and Nick Antonopoulos

Part III: Data Cloud

Implementing MapReduce Applications in Dynamic Cloud Environments
Domenico Talia, Paolo Trunfio and Fabrizio Marozzo

High Performance Graph Data Management and Mining in Cloud Environments with X10
Miyuru Dayarathna and Toyotaro Suzumura

Part IV: Multi-Clouds

Facilitating Cloud Federation Management via Data Interoperability
Vincent Chimaobi Emeakaroha, Philip Healy and John Morrison

Applying Self-* Principles in Heterogeneous Cloud Environments
Ioan Dragan, Teodor-Florin Fortis, Gabriel Iuhasz, Dana Petcu and Marian Neagul

Part V: Performance and Efficiency

Optimizing the Profit and QoS of Virtual Brokers in the Cloud
Santiago Iturriaga, Sergio Nesmachnow and Bernabe Dorronsoro

Adaptive Resource Allocation for Load Balancing in Cloud
Somnath Mazumdar, Alberto Scionti and Anoop S. Kumar

Cloud-Supported Certification for Energy-Efficient Web Browsing and Services
Gonçalo Avelar, Jos é Simão and Luís Veiga

Datacentre Event Analysis for Knowledge Discovery in Large-Scale Cloud Environments
John Panneerselvam, Lu Liu and Yao Lu