With the widespread adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT), the number of connected
devices is growing at an exponential rate, which is contributing to ever-increasing, massive …

Every year, natural disasters cause major loss of human life, damage to infrastructure and
significant economic impact on the areas involved. Geospatial Scientists aim to help in …

Cloud computing is a network access model that aims to transparently and ubiquitously
share a large number of computing resources. These are leased by a service provider to …

Human resources (HRs) as the most important asset of any organizations play a significant
role in their success; but, HR virtualization and sharing her/his knowledge and skills was not …

Containers are lightweight and provide the potential to reduce more energy consumption of
data centers than Virtual Machines (VMs) in container-based clouds. On-line resource …

Monitoring is an important aspect of designing and maintaining large-scale systems. Cloud
computing presents a unique set of challenges to monitoring including: on-demand …

Cloud computing provides a shared pool of computing resources that can be rapidly and
elastically provisioned and released based on users' demand to serve a wide and constantly …

The class of two-spin systems contains several important models, including random
independent sets and the Ising model of statistical physics. We show that for both the hard …

The demand for real-time cloud applications has seen an unprecedented growth over the
past decade. These applications require rapidly data transfer and fast computations. This …

In cloud computing environments in software as a service (SaaS) level, interoperability
refers to the ability of SaaS systems on one cloud provider to communicate with SaaS …