Sustainable Cloud and Energy Services

1. Cloud Computing and Internet of Things Integration: Architecture, Applications, Issues, and Challenges
Akash Malik, Hari Om

2. A Self-Governing and Decentralized Network of Smart Objects to Share Electrical Power Autonomously
Amrutha Muralidharan, Horia A. Maior, Shrisha Rao

3. Implementing Energy Service Automation Using Cloud Technologies and Public Communications Networks
Claudia Battistelli, Padraic McKeever, Stephan Gross, Ferdinanda Ponci, Antonello Monti

4. Privacy-Preserving Smart Grid Tariff Decisions with Blockchain-Based Smart Contracts
Fabian Knirsch, Andreas Unterweger, Günther Eibl, Dominik Engel

5. Energy Cloud: Services for Smart Buildings
Nader Mohamed, Jameela Al-Jaroodi, Sanja Lazarova-Molnar

6. Dynamic Virtual Machine Consolidation Algorithms for Energy-Efficient Cloud Resource Management: A Review
Md Anit Khan, Andrew Paplinski, Abdul Malik Khan, Manzur Murshed, Rajkumar Buyya

7. Energy Saving in Cloud by Using Enhanced Instance Based Learning (EIBL) for Resource Prediction
Sudha Pelluri, Ramachandram Sirandas

8. Short-Term Prediction Model to Maximize Renewable Energy Usage in Cloud Data Centers
Atefeh Khosravi, Rajkumar Buyya

9. Optimal Sizing of a Micro-Hydrokinetic Pumped-Hydro-Storage Hybrid System for Different Demand Sectors
S. P. Koko, K. Kusakana, H. J. Vermaak

10. Impact of Different South African Demand Sectors on Grid-Connected PV Systems’ Optimal Energy Dispatch Under Time of Use Tariff
K. Kusakana

Keywords: Engineering, Communications Engineering, Networks, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Renewable and Green Energy