Blockchains are an emerging digital technology that combine cryptography, data
management, networking, and incentive mechanisms to support the checking, execution …

Recent years have seen the massive migration of enterprise applications to the cloud. One
of the challenges posed by cloud applications is Quality-of-Service (QoS) management …

Model-driven engineering (MDE) often features quality assurance (QA) techniques to help
developers creating software that meets reliability, efficiency, and safety requirements. In this …

The spot instance model is a virtual machine pricing scheme in which some resources of
cloud providers are offered to the highest bidder. This leads to the formation of a spot price …

Resource management in cloud computing is a difficult problem, as one is often tasked with
balancing between adequate service to clients and cost minimization in dynamic …

Despite the large literature on queueing theory and its applications, tool support to analyze
these models is mostly focused on discrete-event simulation and mean-value analysis …

Coupling MPLS traffic engineering on top of a wavelength-routed WDM layer offers great
flexibility to operators to allocate traffic demands in their networks. We consider the problem …

DevOps is a novel trend in software engineering that aims at bridging the gap between
development and operations, putting in particular the developer in greater control of …

For the development of a predictive autoscaler for private clouds, an evaluation method was
needed. A survey of available tools was made, but none were found suitable. The …

With the emerging IoT and Cloud-based networked systems that rely heavily on
virtualization technologies, elasticity becomes a dominant system engineering attribute for …