Content:
Part 1. Invited Papers --
Object-Oriented Service Clouds for Transdisciplinary Computing / Michael Sobolewski --
From Service Innovation to Service Engineering / Wil Janssen, Marc Lankhorst, Timber Haaker and Henny de Vos --
Part 2. Cloud Computing Fundamentals --
Adaptive Overlay Approach on the Inter-Cloud Environment / Sumeth Lerthirunwong, Hitoshi Sato and Satoshi Matsuoka --
Securing Virtual and Cloud Environments / Mariana Carroll, Paula Kotzé and Alta van der Merwe --
Achieving Market Liquidity Through Autonomic Cloud Market Management / Ivan Breskovic, Michael Maurer, Vincent C. Emeakaroha, Ivona Brandic and Jörn Altmann --
Part 3. Services Science Foundation for Cloud Computing --
Cost-Performance Driven Resource Configuration for Database Applications in IaaS Cloud Environments / Shoubin Kong, Yuanping Li and Ling Feng. Partitioning Workflows for Decentralized Execution / Adam Barker --
An Integrated Monitoring Infrastructure for Cloud Environments / Gregory Katsaros, Georgina Gallizo, Roland Kübert, Tinghe Wang and J. Oriol Fitó, et al. --
Service Development Abstraction: A Design Methodology and Development Toolset for Abstractive and Flexible Service-Based Software / Per-Olov Östberg and Erik Elmroth --
Cloud Computing Costs and Benefits / An IT Management Point of View / Nane Kratzke --
Part 4. Cloud Computing Platforms and Applications --
A Cloud Computing Medical Image Analysis and Collaboration Platform / Louis Parsonson, Soeren Grimm, Atif Bajwa, Laurence Bourn and Li Bai --
Applicability of NoSQL Databases to Mobile Networks: Case Home Location Register / Rasmus Paivarinta and Yrjo Raivio --
SLA-Based Planning for Multi-Domain Infrastructure as a Service / Kuan Lu, Thomas Röblitz, Peter Chronz and Constantinos Kotsokalis. Scheduling On-demand SaaS Services on a Shared Virtual Cluster / Rodrigue Chakode, Jean-François Méhaut and Blaise-Omer Yenke --
Assessing Cloud Infrastructure Costs in Communications-Intensive Applications / Oleksiy Mazhelis, Pasi Tyrväinen, Kuan Eeik Tan and Jari Hiltunen --
Are Clouds Ready for Geoprocessing? / Hassan A. Karimi and Duangduen Roongpiboonsopit --
Part 5. Cloud Computing Enabling Technology --
A Performance Evaluation of Block I/O Paravirtualization and Virtual Machine Images / Django Armstrong and Karim Djemame --
Dynamic Resource Allocation for Multi-Tiered, Cluster-Based Web Hosting Environments / M. Al Ghamdi, A. P. Chester, L. He and S. A. Jarvis --
A Method for Experimental Analysis and Modeling of Virtualization Performance Overhead / Nikolaus Huber, Marcel von Quast, Fabian Brosig, Michael Hauck and Samuel Kounev --
The Partition Cost Model for Load Balancing in MapReduce / Benjamin Gufler, Nikolaus Augsten, Angelika Reiser and Alfons Kemper.
Abstract:
A collection of the best papers presented at the International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER), which was held in The Netherlands in May 2011. It provides a wealth of key concepts in the development of services science advancement, from software to infrastructures, platforms and outsourcing, and more. Read more...