The huge amount of data generated by the Internet of Things (IoT) devices needs the
computational power and storage capacity provided by cloud, edge, and fog computing …

For several years now, scientists have been proposing numerous models for defining
anything" as a service (aaS)", including discussions of products, processes, data & …

With the advent of cloud computing, many new networking concepts have been introduced
to simplify network management and bring innovation through network programmability. The …

Blockchain, originated from Bitcoin system, has drawn intense attention from the academic
community because of its decentralization, persistency, anonymity and auditability. In the …

Cloud computing emerges as a new computing paradigm that aims to provide reliable,
customized and quality of service guaranteed computation environments for cloud users …

The evolution of cloud computing over the past few years is potentially one of the major
advances in the history of computing. However, if cloud computing is to achieve its potential …

Resource scheduling assigns the precise and accurate task to CPU, network, and storage.
The aim behind this is the extreme usage of resources. However, well organized scheduling …

Cloud computing is one of the most popular distributed environments, in which, multiple
powerful and heterogeneous resources are used by different user applications. Task …

This chapter provides an accessible introduction for point processes, and especially Hawkes
processes, for modeling discrete, inter-dependent events over continuous time. We start by …

Cloud computing has a shared set of resources, including physical servers, networks,
storage, and user applications. Resource allocation is a critical issue for cloud computing …