We present a descriptive literature review and classification scheme for cloud computing
research. This includes 205 refereed journal articles published since the inception of cloud …

Cloud Manufacturing (CM) is the concept of using manufacturing resources in a service-
oriented way over the Internet. Recent developments in Additive Manufacturing (AM) are …

In cloud computing, efficient task scheduling espouses many challenges. To schedule the
multiple cloudlets with deadline constraints on hybrid cloud resources while meeting the …

Looking merely from the neoclassical perspective, cloud computing is price effective.
However, according to institutional and transaction cost economics, cloud customers should …

Moving existing legacy systems to cloud platforms is a difficult and high cost process that
may involve technical and non-technical resources and challenges. There is evidence that …

Abstract Information technology organizations have experienced rapid growth in recent
years, resulting in scalability, mobility, and flexibility challenges. Those organizations move …

As cloud federation allows companies in need of computational resources to use
computational resources hosted by different cloud providers, it reduces the cost of IT …

This paper presents an iterative mathematical decision model for organizations to evaluate
whether to invest in establishing information technology (IT) infrastructure on‐premises or …

Cloud computing is utilised for information technology outsourcing of either industries or
organisations. There are several inhibitors and motivations related factors to determine …

With an increasing number of cloud computing offerings in the market, migrating an existing
computational infrastructure to the cloud requires comparison of different offers in order to …