This paper presents a comprehensive survey of the state-of-the-art work on fault tolerance
methods proposed for cloud computing. The survey classifies fault-tolerance methods into …

In order to realize the full-scale sharing, free circulation and transaction, and on-demand-
use of manufacturing resource and capabilities in modern enterprise systems (ES), Cloud …

Spatial crowdsourcing (SC) outsources tasks to a set of workers who are required to
physically move to specified locations and accomplish tasks. Recently, it is emerging as a …

Fault tolerance is crucial in ensuring smooth working of distributed and cloud computing. It is
challenging to implement because of the constantly changing infrastructure and complex …

Massive trajectory data stems from the prevalence of equipment supporting GPS and
wireless communication technology. Based on these data, the computation of trajectory …

Existing works on service composition are primarily based on the requirements of service
composition, such as describing language supporting service composition, service …

The reflective middlewares have been used as a powerful tool to cope with inherent
heterogeneous nature of distributed systems, in order to give them greater adaptability …

Abstract Collaborative Web services QoS prediction has proved to be an important tool to
estimate accurately personalized QoS experienced by individual users, which is beneficial …

As a promising, low-cost, and agile way to develop software, in recent years automatic
service composition has been a popular research topic receiving a lot of attentions. For this …

Using cloud-based services can improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of a
software application. However, transitioning an application to use cloud-based services is …