In the last few years, the appealing features of cloud computing have been fueling the
integration of cloud environments in the industry, which has been consequently motivating …

This paper surveys the risks brought by multitenancy in software platforms, along with the
most prominent solutions proposed to address them. A multitenant platform hosts and …

We present Replayable Execution, a system for improving the efficiency of Function-as-a-
Service (FaaS) frameworks. It takes advantage of standard kernel features to reduce …

Ubiquitous sensing environments such as sensor networks collect large amounts of data.
This data volume is destined to grow even further with the vision of the Internet of Things …

Managed Runtime Environments (MREs), such as the JVM and the CLI, form an attractive
environment for program execution, by providing portability and safety, via the use of a …

Due to frequently changing requirements, the internal structure of cloud services is highly
dynamic. To ensure flexibility, adaptability, and maintainability for dynamically evolving …

In finance and healthcare, event processing systems handle sensitive data on behalf of
many clients. Guaranteeing information security in such systems is challenging because of …

While the popularity of web applications is growing, most of the software is still developed
using desktop tools. Nevertheless, a browser-based development environment could offer a …

Clouds provide a platform for efficiently and flexibly aggregating, storing, and processing
large amounts of data. Eventually, sensor networks will automatically collect such data. A …

Current state of PaaS allows rapid outsourcing of web applications without noticeable
configuration effort. It could be foreseen that a noteworthy security guarantee in this cloud …