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Pamukkale Travertines: A Natural and Cultural Monument in the World Heritage List
The actively accumulating Pamukkale travertines and the ancient city of Hierapolis are located along the northern margin of the Denizli Basin in Western Turkey and are both included as a mixed natural and cult...
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Chapter
Healthcare Application
This chapter presents a real life case based on a case study from Atos which uses the MODAClouds framework to manage the design, deployment and governance of a telemedicine solution in a hybrid multi-Cloud env...
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Chapter
QoS Assessment and SLA Management
Verifying that a software system shows certain non-functional properties is a primary concern for Cloud applications (In this chapter non-functional properties, QoS and non-functional requirements will be used...
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Article
Historical earthquakes that damaged Hierapolis and Laodikeia antique cities and their implications for earthquake potential of Denizli basin in western Turkey
Denizli basin is situated at the junction of NW–SE trending Gediz Graben and E–W trending Büyük Menderes Graben in the eastern part of the western Anadolu (Anatolian) extensional province in western Turkey, wh...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
SeaClouds: An Open Reference Architecture for Multi-cloud Governance
We present the open reference architecture of the SeaClouds solution. It aims at enabling a seamless adaptive multi-cloud management of complex applications by supporting the distribution, monitoring and recon...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Data Movement in the Internet of Things Domain
Managing data produced in the Internet of Things according to the traditional data-center based approach is becoming no longer appropriate. Devices are improving their computational power as the processors ins...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Cloud4SOA: A Semantic-Interoperability PaaS Solution for Multi-cloud Platform Management and Portability
Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a novel, rapidly growing segment in the Cloud computing market. However, the diversity and heterogeneity of today’s existing PaaS offerings raises several interoperability...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Software Licenses as Mobile Objects in Distributed Computing Environments
Current praxis of software licensing has been identified as major obstacle for Grid computing a couple of years ago already. Recent surveys of Clouds indicate that the same holds true for Cloud computing. As a...
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Chapter
Virtual Hosting Environments for Online Gaming
The Virtual Hosting Environment (VHE) is an advanced Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) environment where business services can be integrated with one another across organisational boundaries and...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
SLA-Based Management of Software Licenses as Web Service Resources in Distributed Environments
Until recently the use of applications requiring a software license for execution was quite limited in distributed environments. Due to the mandatory centralised control of license usage at application run-tim...
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Article
Reliability of equations to estimate glomerular filtration rate in the very old
Background and aims: Few studies have investigated the reliability of formulas estimating renal function in very old people. Methods: We studied 154 elderly people (mean age: 82 yrs). Serum creat...
