Special issue published: "Orchestration and Emergent Applications for Grid and Cloud Computing"

International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing 8(2) 2017

• Middleware, framework and novel computing models for grid and cloud service orchestration
• Cognitive application area networks
• MAROQ: a resource allocation model driven through quality of experience
• A study of comparative clustering of EU countries using the DBSCAN and k-means techniques within the theoretical framework of systemic geopolitical analysis
• A smart storage optimisation technique on the cloud
• SLAs for cloud applications: agreement protocol and REST-based implementation
• Flexible simulations of complex networks in OpenStack clouds
• Combining reputation and QoS measures to improve cloud service composition

Regularly submitted paper

• A new inter-cloud service-level guarantee protocol applied to space missions