Cloud Computing is diversified with its services exponentially and lured large number of consumers towards the technology indefinitely. It has become a highly challenging problem to satiate user requirements. Most existing system ingest search space or provide inappropriate service; hence, there need for reliable competent service selection/ranking in cloud environment. The proposed work introd...

Cloud computing delivers services over the internet based on pay as you use financial model. Cloud providers publish service advertisements in different format (text, files, table and images) on the Internet. On the other hand, cloud consumers spend a lot of time and effort to find the appropriate cloud service using public search engines. Nowadays, cloud service discovery process considers as ...

FROM a technology foundation perspective, services computing has become the default discipline in today’s services industry. As a major implementation technology for modernizing the services industry, Web Services are Internet-based programmable application components that are published using standard interface description languages and that are universally available via standard communication ...

Service composition provides value-adding services through composing basic Web services, which may be provided by various organizations. Cloud computing presents an efficient managerial, on-demand, and scalable way to integrate computational resources (hardware, platform, and software). However, existing Cloud architecture lacks the layer of middleware to enable dynamic service composition. To ...

By adopting principles of cloud computing to the logistics domain the paradigm of Cloud Logistics is derived. It appears to be a promising paradigm in order to evolve logistics into being more flexible and collaborative. Yet, appropriate concepts that enable the cloud logistics paradigm are missing. In the paper, existing body of literature is reviewed and a definition and a framework of cloud ...

In this paper, we try to design a service mechanism for profit optimizations of both a cloud provider and its multiple users. We consider the problem from a game theoretic perspective and characterize the relationship between the cloud provider and its multiple users as a Stackelberg game, in which the strategies of all users are subject to that of the cloud provider. The cloud provider tries t...

Cloud storage services are becoming increasingly popular due to their flexible deployment, convenient pay-per-use model, and little (if any) administrative overhead. Today they are being offered by ever growing number of Internet companies, such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft as well as numerous smaller providers, such as Rackspace, Nirvanix and many others. Although cloud storage providers make ...