Using resources and services from multiple Clouds is a natural evolution from consuming
the ones from in-silo Clouds. Technological and administrative barriers are however slowing …

The adoption of the Cloud computing concept and its market development are nowadays
hindered by the problem of application, data and service portability between Clouds. Open …

The diversity of Cloud computing services is challenging the application developers as
various and non-standard interfaces are provided for these services. Few middleware …

As the popularity of cloud computing increases, more and more applications are migrated
onto them. Web 2.0 applications are the most common example of such applications. These …

With an increasing number of cloud computing offerings in the market, migrating an existing
computational infrastructure to the cloud requires comparison of different offers in order to …

Cloud computing delegates the management of any kind of resources, such as the
computing environment or storage systems for example, to the network. The wide-spread …

Identifying which part of a local system should be migrated to a public Cloud environment is
often a difficult and error prone process. With the significant (and increasing) number of …

Cloud architecture is established as a standard for services provisioning. Discovering of
services is a hard task since several services have to be analysed. The mOSAIC project …

The selection of Cloud providers, whose offers best fit the requirements of a particular
application, is a complex issue due to the heterogeneity of the Cloud services, resources …

The easiness of managing and configuring resources and the low cost needed for setup and
maintaining Cloud services have made Cloud Computing widespread. Several commercial …