Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) allows communication between devices, things, and
any digital assets that send and receive data over a network without requiring interaction …

Modern cloud computing environments support a relatively high degree of automation in
service provisioning, which allows cloud service customers (CSCs) to dynamically acquire …

The REliable CApacity Provisioning and enhanced remediation for distributed cloud
applications (RECAP) project aims to advance cloud and edge computing technology, to …

Recent years have seen an increasing trend towards the development of Discrete Event
Simulation (DES) platforms to support cloud computing related decision making and …

Today's system developers and operators face the challenge of creating software systems
that make efficient use of dynamically allocated resources under highly variable and …

Cloud data centres with providers on physical level and customers on virtual level both
monitor their hard-and software infrastructure to understand load patterns and to detect …

In an era of complex networked parallel heterogeneous systems, simulating independently
only parts, components, or attributes of a system-under-design is a cumbersome, inaccurate …

Model-based performance analysis can be leveraged to explore performance properties of
software systems. To capture the behavior of varying workload mixes, configurations, and …

Model-drivenengineering promotes models and modeltrans-formations as the primary
assets in software development. The models@ run-time approach provides an abstract rep …

Software architects plan the realization of software systems by assessing design decisions
on the basis of architectural models. Using these models as input, architectural analyses …