Technical debt is a concept used to describe the lack of good practices during software
development, leading to several problems and costs. Identification and management …

Mobile cloud computing is the model to ubiquitously access a shared pool of cloud
computing resources, data, and services on-demand. This paper introduces the elasticity …

Elasticity is a cloud property that enables applications and their execution systems to
dynamically acquire and release shared computational resources on demand. Moreover, it …

With the advances in eScience-related areas and the growing complexity of scientific
analysis, more and more scientists are interested in workflow systems. There is a class of …

A multi-tenant Software as a Service (SaaS) application is a highly configurable software
that allows its owner to serve multiple tenants, each with their own workflows, workloads and …

The advantages of composing and delivering software applications in the Cloud-Based
Software as a Service (SaaS) model are offering cost-effective solutions with minimal …

Cloud computing has emerged as a new computational model in which software is hosted,
run and administered in large web data centers and provided as a service. Therefore …

Current research on Collaborative Information Retrieval area reveals a significant synergy
among Information Retrieval, Human-Computer Interaction and Computer-Supported …

The introduction of virtualization in the mobile networks has brought new capabilities for
network management, including the cutting‐edge advancement of network slicing over …

Cloud computing is a well-consolidated paradigm for on-demand provisioning of computing
and storage resources that is highly motivated by economies of scale. Elasticity is a …