Cloud computing plays a critical role in modern society and enables a range of applications
from infrastructure to social media. Such system must cope with varying load and evolving …

Industrial Agents explains how multi-agent systems improve collaborative networks to offer
dynamic service changes, customization, improved quality and reliability, and flexible …

In the state of the art, there are very few studies on agent-based Cloud Computing.
Nevertheless, this is an emerging trend and the number of studies and applications in this …

The rapid growth of the cloud industry has increased challenges in the proper governance of
the cloud infrastructure. Many intelligent systems have been develo**, considering …

Globalisation and increased competition pushes companies to grow outside political and
geographical boundaries, frequently forcing them to increase product diversification and …

Cloud providers commonly incur heavy upfront set up costs which remain almost constant
whether they serve a single or many customers. In order to generate a return on this …

Abstract Cloud Computing and Service Oriented Architectures have seen a dramatic
increase of the amount of applications, services, management platforms, data, etc. gaining …

Marketing tourism via games is a new phenomenon. This research uses a qualitative
method to explore the motivation of tourist players. Through content analysis of the focus …

Context In recent years, various complex and similar-function cloud services with different
quality of service features are offered in services pool. Such diversity of services complicates …

The paper addresses the relevant problem related to the development of scientific
applications (applied software packages) to solve large-scale problems in heterogeneous …