Cloud Computing and Services Science: 11th International Conference, CLOSER 2021, Virtual Event, April 28–30, 2021, Revised Selected Papers

✍ Scribed by Donald Ferguson, Markus Helfert, Claus Pahl

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 126
• Series: Communications in Computer and Information Science, 1607
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, CLOSER 2021, Virtual Event, during April 28–30, 2021.  The 5 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 51 submissions. The proceedings deal with the topics of data processing, cloud computing environments, and services science.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Organization
Contents
Tailoring Technology-Agnostic Deployment Models to Production-Ready Deployment Technologies
1 Introduction
2 Background and Motivation
2.1 Deployment Models, Deployment Technologies, and EDMM
2.2 Motivating Scenario
3 Extending the EDMM Approach with Tailoring Support
3.1 Step 1: Technology-Independent Application Modeling
3.2 Step 2: Technology Decision Support and Tailoring for EDMM Models
3.3 Step 3: Transform EDMM Model into DTSM
3.4 Step 4: Technology-specific Deployment Execution
4 The Extended EDMM Modeling and Transformation Framework
4.1 Architecture of the Extended EDMM Framework
4.2 Prototypical Implementation
5 Case Study and Evaluation
5.1 First Deployment of PetClinic
5.2 Migrating the Deployment of PetClinic to Other Technologies
5.3 Migrating to a PaaS Deployment of PetClinic
5.4 Migrating to a Technology Not Supporting the Deployment
6 Related Work
7 Conclusions
References
Toward Secure VMs Allocation: Analysis of VMs Allocation Behaviours in the Cloud Computing Environments
1 Introduction
2 Related Work
3 Problem Formulation
3.1 Threat Model
3.2 Secure VMs Allocation Model
4 Secure VMs Allocation Algorithm
4.1 Secure Stacking Algorithm (SS)
5 Evaluation
5.1 Allocation Behaviours Comparison
5.2 Experimental Setup
5.3 Results of Malicious Co-residency Respect to VMs Type and Under Limited Resources Availability
5.4 Results of VMs Migrations
5.5 Results of PMs Usage
6 Conclusion
References
Risk Analysis Automation Process in IT Security for Cloud Applications
1 Introduction
2 State of the Art
3 Methodology
4 System Modeling
5 Threat Modelling
6 Risk Rating
6.1 Threat Agent Selection and Rating
6.2 Vulnerability Factors
6.3 Impact Factors
6.4 Overall Evaluation and Input Collection
7 Case Study
7.1 Modeling
7.2 Threat Selection
7.3 Risk Analysis
8 Conclusion
References
AI Quality Engineering for Machine Learning Based IoT Data Processing
1 Introduction
2 Explainable AI and AI Engineering
3 Continuous AI Data and Model Quality Management
3.1 Quality Principles
3.2 IoT Use Case
4 DaaS Quality Assessment and Problem Cause Analysis
4.1 Quality Layers
4.2 MAPE-K Service Quality Loop
5 An IoT-Edge Traffic Management Use Case
5.1 Quality and Symptom Analysis
5.2 Root Cause Analysis and Remedial Action Recommendation
5.3 Step 1 Metric Calculation and Step 2 Problem Assessment
5.4 Step 3 – Root Cause Analysis and Recommendation
5.5 Transferability
6 Related Work
7 Conclusions
References
Quality of Service Support Through a Self-adaptive System in Edge Computing Environments
1 Introduction
2 Related Work
3 System Architecture
3.1 Proposed QoS Framework
3.2 Algorithms
4 Experimental Design
4.1 Experiments’ Objective and Scenario
4.2 Workload Dataset
4.3 Evaluation Metrics
4.4 Simulation Setting
5 Performance Evaluation
5.1 Objectives’ Evaluation
5.2 Results Discussion
5.3 Framework Design
5.4 Results Summary and Recommendations
6 Conclusion and Future Work
References
Author Index