Special issue: "Cloud Computing for Education and Research"

International Journal of Cloud Computing 2(2/3) 2013

Extended versions of papers presented at the International IBM Cloud Academy Conference 2012 (ICA CON 2012).

• Constructing next generation academic cloud services
• Cloud computing: increasing the 'T' pipeline in STEM majors
• Tokai Academic Cloud: an experimental intra and inter-institutional cloud infrastructure among national universities in the Tokai Region of Japan
• Scalable data management for map-reduce-based data-intensive applications: a view for cloud and hybrid infrastructures
• Building resilient cloud services using DDDAS and moving target defence
• Analytics of resource transients in cloud-based applications
• Cloud computing services and architecture for education
• TeachCloud: a cloud computing educational toolkit
• A configurable service-based framework for composition, delivery and evaluation of composite web services in distributed QoS-aware ICT environment
• 'Classroom in the cloud': from virtual to social collaborative learning
• A policy-based cloud broker for the VCL platform