The proliferation of data warehouses and the rise of multimedia, social media and the
Internet of Things (IoT) generate an increasing volume of structured, semi-structured and …

The rapidly changing workload of service-based systems can easily cause under-/over-
utilization on the component services, which can consequently affect the overall Quality of …

In the emerging 5G mobile computing environments, the need for cutting edge technologies
regarding data transmission, storage and processing will be more critical than ever. In …

The highly computationally capable mobile devices and the continuously increasing
demand for high data rates and mobility, which are required by several mobile network …

Technical debt is the metaphor for shortcuts in software development that bring short-term
benefits, but long-term consequences hinder the process of maintaining and develo** …

The series “Studies in Big Data”(SBD) publishes new developments and advances in the
various areas of Big Data-quickly and with a high quality. The intent is to cover the theory …

A composite service in multi-tenant SaaS cloud would inevitably operate under dynamic
changes on the workload from the tenants, and thus it is not uncommon for the composition …

The growing prevalence of Internet of Things (IoT) ushers itself with various security
concerns. Being complex in nature, traditional security countermeasures cannot be applied …

The rise of large data centers has created new business models, where businesses can
lease storage and computing capacity and pay only for the storage they actually use, rather …

Mobile cloud computing is the model to ubiquitously access a shared pool of cloud
computing resources, data, and services on-demand. This paper introduces the elasticity …