Cloud computing is a recent and modern technique of computing in which dynamically scalable and other virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet. The energy consumption and make span associated with the resources allocated should be taken into account. This paper proposes an improved optimization algorithm based on time cost and energy consumption models in cloud computin...

With the advantages of pay-per-use, easy access and on-demand resource customization, the Cloud computing concept was quickly adopted by both the industry and the academia. Over the last decade, the many Cloud infrastructures that have been built have distinguished themselves in the variety of offered services, access interfaces, costs and Service Level Agreement (SLA). On the other hand, “vend...

Cloud computing is an emerging concept of information technology that in many countries has an influence on many companies. The research was conducted to evaluate cloud computing adoption in Saudi Arabia; Benefits and hindrances for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The qualitative research approach is performed by interviews with the management of a variety of SMEs active in the infor...

Without doubt, Web is known as a source of information whatever, be the domain. With increasing unexpected experimental growth of web image, web service retrieval and selection be the one of the major issues. In the present scenario, ontology is applied for knowledge description and formalization especially in aggregating personalized web information. In this paper, a proposed ontological model...

The recent establishment of cloud computing and its increasing importance for consumers have attracted new ways of service creation and provisioning over the internet. Research has dealt with the establishment of new cloud computing markets and new opportunities for collaboration in these emerging markets. We found that the necessary decisions are very much similar to decisions that have to be ...