Cloud computing and services science

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Object-Oriented Service Clouds for Transdisciplinary Computing....Pages 3-31
From Service Innovation to Service Engineering....Pages 33-51
Front Matter....Pages 53-53
Adaptive Overlay Approach on the Inter-Cloud Environment....Pages 55-72
Securing Virtual and Cloud Environments....Pages 73-90
Achieving Market Liquidity Through Autonomic Cloud Market Management....Pages 91-107
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
Cost-Performance Driven Resource Configuration for Database Applications in IaaS Cloud Environments....Pages 111-129
Partitioning Workflows for Decentralized Execution....Pages 131-147
An Integrated Monitoring Infrastructure for Cloud Environments....Pages 149-164
Service Development Abstraction: A Design Methodology and Development Toolset for Abstractive and Flexible Service-Based Software....Pages 165-184
Cloud Computing Costs and Benefits....Pages 185-203
Front Matter....Pages 205-205
A Cloud Computing Medical Image Analysis and Collaboration Platform....Pages 207-224
Applicability of NoSQL Databases to Mobile Networks: Case Home Location Register....Pages 225-242
SLA-Based Planning for Multi-Domain Infrastructure as a Service....Pages 243-257
Scheduling On-demand SaaS Services on a Shared Virtual Cluster....Pages 259-276
Assessing Cloud Infrastructure Costs in Communications-Intensive Applications....Pages 277-293
Are Clouds Ready for Geoprocessing?....Pages 295-312
Front Matter....Pages 313-313
A Performance Evaluation of Block I/O Paravirtualization and Virtual Machine Images....Pages 315-332
Dynamic Resource Allocation for Multi-Tiered, Cluster-Based Web Hosting Environments....Pages 333-352
A Method for Experimental Analysis and Modeling of Virtualization Performance Overhead....Pages 353-370
The Partition Cost Model for Load Balancing in MapReduce....Pages 371-387
Back Matter....Pages 389-390