With the increase of research in self-adaptive systems, there is a need to better understand
the way research contributions are evaluated. Such insights will support researchers to …

Ensuring the qualities of modern software systems, such as the Internet of Things, is
challenging due to various uncertainties, such as dynamics in availability of resources or …

Self-adaptation is an established approach to deal with uncertainties that are difficult to
predict before a system is deployed. A self-adaptative system employs a feedback loop that …

ABSTRACT Platform as a Service (PaaS) clouds are capable of both transparently allocating
computing resources as well as providing part of the software stack and related services to …

With the advent of microservices, the Internet-of-Things high-velocity big-data applications,
client-server cloud services are increasingly driven by automated agents, including other …

In an ever-changing landscape of software technology, new development paradigms, novel
infrastructure technologies and emerging application domains reveal exciting opportunities …

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 …

In this paper, we deal with optimizing the monetary costs of executing parallel applications in
cloud-based environments. Specifically, we investigate on how scalability characteristics of …

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

Cloud computing is undoubtedly considered one of the most discussed topics in recent
times, both in the research and business sectors. Various schools of thought have attempted …