Cloud computing services are divided into three classes, according to the abstraction level of the capability provided and the service...

The increasing complexity of computing systems has motivated research on autonomic computing, which seeks to improve systems by decreasing human...

The idea of virtualizing a computer system’s resources, including processors, memory, and I/O devices, has been well established for decades,...

In utility computing environments, users assign a “utility” value to their jobs, where utility is a fixed or time-varying valuation...

Grid computing enables aggregation of distributed resources and transparently access to them. Most production grids such as TeraGrid and EGEE...