Cloud computing is a recently looming-evoked paradigm, the aim of which is to provide on-
demand, pay-as-you-go, internet-based access to shared computing resources (hardware …

Optimization is an inseparable part of Cloud computing, particularly with the emergence of
Fog and Edge paradigms. Not only these emerging paradigms demand reevaluating cloud …

In many public and private Cloud systems, users need to specify a limit for the amount of
resources (CPU cores and RAM) to provision for their workloads. A job that exceeds its limits …

As a widely used IT service, more and more companies shift their services to cloud
datacenters. It is important for cloud service providers (CSPs) to provide cloud service …

Cloud research to date has lacked data on the characteristics of the production virtual
machine (VM) workloads of large cloud providers. A thorough understanding of these …

As a new term in the financial industry, FinTech has become a popular term that describes
novel technologies adopted by the financial service institutions. This term covers a large …

Cloud computing offers Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and
Software as a Service (SaaS) to provide compute, network, and storage capabilities to the …

Data centers are critical, energy-hungry infrastructures that run large-scale Internet-based
services. Energy consumption models are pivotal in designing and optimizing energy …

Elasticity is a fundamental property in cloud computing that has recently witnessed major
developments. This article reviews both classical and recent elasticity solutions and …

Recent leading approaches to semantic segmentation rely on deep convolutional networks
trained with human-annotated, pixel-level segmentation masks. Such pixel-accurate …