Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services : 13th International Conference, GECON 2016, Athens, Greece, September 20-22, 2016, Revised Selected Papers

Front Matter ....Pages I-XVII
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
 On the Future of Solution Composition in Software Ecosystems  (Zherui Yang, Slinger Jansen, Xuesong Gao, Dong Zhang)....Pages 3-18
 The Rise of Cloud Brokerage: Business Model, Profit Making and Cost Savings  (Evangelia Filiopoulou, Persefoni Mitropoulou, Christos Michalakelis, Mara Nikolaidou)....Pages 19-32
Front Matter ....Pages 33-33
 Robust Content-Centric SLA Enforcement in Federated Cloud Environments  (Nikoletta Mavrogeorgi, Athanasios Voulodimos, Vassilios Alexandrou, Spyridon Gogouvitis, Theodora Varvarigou)....Pages 35-48
 Structural Specification for the SLAs in Cloud Computing (S3LACC)  (Waheed Aslam Ghumman, Alexander Schill)....Pages 49-61
 Load Balancing in In-Memory Key-Value Stores for Response Time Minimization  (Antonios Makris, Konstantinos Tserpes, Dimosthenis Anagnostopoulos)....Pages 62-73
 Fault-Tree-Based Service Availability Model in Cloud Environments: A Failure Trace Archive Approach  (Alexandru Butoi, Gheorghe Cosmin Silaghi)....Pages 74-86
Front Matter ....Pages 87-87
 An Economical Security Architecture for Multi-cloud Application Deployments in Federated Environments  (Mathias Slawik, Begüm Ilke Zilci, Axel Küpper, Yuri Demchenko, Fatih Turkmen, Christophe Blanchet et al.)....Pages 89-101
 Efficient Context Management and Personalized User Recommendations in a Smart Social TV Environment  (Fotis Aisopos, Angelos Valsamis, Alexandros Psychas, Andreas Menychtas, Theodora Varvarigou)....Pages 102-114
 When Culture Trumps Economic Laws: Persistent Segmentation of the Mobile Instant Messaging Market  (Maria C. Borges, Max-R. Ulbricht, Frank Pallas)....Pages 115-126
Front Matter ....Pages 127-127
 Energy Efficiency Support Through Intra-layer Cloud Stack Adaptation  (Karim Djemame, Richard Kavanagh, Django Armstrong, Francesc Lordan, Jorge Ejarque, Mario Macias et al.)....Pages 129-143
 Energy-Aware Pricing Within Cloud Environments  (Alexandros Kostopoulos, Eleni Agiatzidou, Antonis Dimakis)....Pages 144-159
 Energy Prediction for Cloud Workload Patterns  (Ibrahim Alzamil, Karim Djemame)....Pages 160-174
 An Energy Aware Cost Recovery Approach for Virtual Machine Migration  (Muhammad Zakarya, Lee Gillam)....Pages 175-190
Front Matter ....Pages 191-191
 The Design and Evaluation of a Heaviness Metric for Cloud Fairness and Correct Virtual Machine Configurations  (Patrick Poullie, Burkhard Stiller)....Pages 193-207
 A History-Based Model for Provisioning EC2 Spot Instances with Cost Constraints  (Javier Fabra, Sergio Hernández, Pedro Álvarez, Joaquín Ezpeleta, Álvaro Recuenco, Ana Martínez)....Pages 208-222
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 Enabling Business-Preference-Based Scheduling of Cloud Computing Resources  (Azamat Uzbekov, Jörn Altmann)....Pages 225-236
 Bazaar-Score: A Key Figure Measuring Market Efficiency in IaaS-Markets  (Benedikt Pittl, Werner Mach, Erich Schikuta)....Pages 237-249
 Understanding Resource Selection Requirements for Computationally Intensive Tasks on Heterogeneous Computing Infrastructure  (Jeremy Cohen, Thierry Rayna, John Darlington)....Pages 250-262
 Towards Usage-Based Dynamic Overbooking in IaaS Clouds  (Athanasios Tsitsipas, Christopher B. Hauser, Jörg Domaschka, Stefan Wesner)....Pages 263-274
Front Matter ....Pages 275-275
 A Privacy-Preserving Top-k Query Processing Algorithm in the Cloud Computing  (Hyeong-Il Kim, Hyeong-Jin Kim, Jae-Woo Chang)....Pages 277-292
 A Network Edge Monitoring Approach for Real-Time Data Streaming Applications  (Salman Taherizadeh, Ian Taylor, Andrew Jones, Zhiming Zhao, Vlado Stankovski)....Pages 293-303
 Distributed Simulation of Complex and Scalable Systems: From Models to the Cloud  (Victor Medel, Unai Arronategui, José Ángel Bañares, José-Manuel Colom)....Pages 304-318
Back Matter ....Pages 319-320