Cloud computing and services science / Ivan Ivanov, Marten van Sinderen, Boris Shishkov, editors.

"[E]ssentially a collection of the best papers of the International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER), which was held in Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands on May 7-9, 2011"--P. v.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.