Cloud Computing and Services Science

Object-oriented Service Clouds for Transdisciplinary Computing.- From Service Innovation to Service Engineering.- Adaptive Overlay Approach on the Inter-Cloud Environment.- Securing Virtual and Cloud Environments.- Achieving Market Liquidity through Autonomic Cloud Market Management.- Cost-performance Driven Resource Configuration for Database Applications in IaaS Cloud Environments.- Accelerating Service-oriented Workflows.- An Integrated Monitoring Infrastructure for Cloud Environments.- Service Development Abstraction: A Design Methodology and Development Toolset for Abstractive and Flexible Service-based Sofware.- Cloud Computing Costs and Benefits: An IT Management Point of View.- A Cloud Computing Medical Image Analysis and Collaboration Platform.- Applicability of NoSQL Databases to Mobile Networks: Case Home Location Register.- SLA-based Planning for Multi-domain Infrastructure as a Service.- Scheduling On-demand SaaS Services on a Shared Virtual Cluster.- Assessing Cloud Infrastructure Costs in Communications-intensive Applications.- Exploring Cloud Computing Techniques for Real-time Geoprocessing.- A Performance Evaluation of Block I/O Paravirtualization & Virtual Machine Images.- Dynamic Resource Allocation for Multi-tiered, Cluster-based Web Hosting Environments.- A Method for Experimental Analysis and Modeling of Virtualization Performance Overhead.- The Partition Cost Model for Load Balancing in MapReduce.- Author Index.