Cloud Computing

Part I. General Principles

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

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

3. A Taxonomy of Adaptive Resource Management Mechanisms in Virtual Machines: Recent Progress and Challenges
José Simão, Luís Veiga

Part II. Science Cloud

4. Exploring Cloud Elasticity in Scientific Applications
Guilherme Galante, Rodrigo Rosa Righi

5. Clouds and Reproducibility: A Way to Go to Scientific Experiments?
Ary H. M. Oliveira, Daniel Oliveira, Marta Mattoso

6. 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, Nikolaos Antonopoulos

Part III. Data Cloud

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

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

Part IV. Multi-clouds

9. Facilitating Cloud Federation Management via Data Interoperability
Vincent C. Emeakaroha, Phillip Healy, John P. Morrison

10. Applying Self-* Principles in Heterogeneous Cloud Environments
Ioan Drăgan, Teodor-Florin Fortiş, Gabriel Iuhasz, Marian Neagul, Dana Petcu

Part V. Performance and Efficiency

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

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

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

14. Cloud-Supported Certification for Energy-Efficient Web Browsing and Services
Gonçalo Avelar, José Simão, Luís Veiga

Keywords: Computer Science, System Performance and Evaluation, Performance and Reliability