Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services
12th International Conference, GECON 2015, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, September 15-17, 2015, Revised Selected Papers
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In the field of edge computing, collaborative computing offloading, in which edge users offload tasks to adjacent mobile devices with rich resources in an opportunistic manner, provides a promising example to ...
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The rapid evolution of smart services and Internet of Things devices accessing cloud data centers can lead to network congestion and increased latency. Fog computing, focusing on ubiquitously connected heterog...
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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has been one of the most successful sky surveys in the history of astronomy. To map the universe, SDSS uses their telescopes to take pictures of the sky over the whole surve...
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There is increasing realisation that edge devices, which are closer to a user, can play an important part in supporting latency and privacy sensitive applications. Such devices have also continued to increase ...
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In container management systems, such as Kubernetes, the scheduler has to place containers in physical machines and it should be aware of the degradation in performance caused by placing together containers th...
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12th International Conference, GECON 2015, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, September 15-17, 2015, Revised Selected Papers
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One of the most persistent problems that plague modern-day road transport facilities is the quality of service provided. Especially during rush hours, this expensive infrastructure does not operate at capacity...
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First International Conference, ICC 2014, Muscat, Oman, February 24-26, 2014, Revised Selected Papers
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The cloud computing concept has significantly influenced how information is delivered and managed in large scale distributed systems today. Cloud computing is currently expected to reduce the economic cost of ...
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11th International Conference, GECON 2014, Cardiff, UK, September 16-18, 2014. Revised Selected Papers.
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The Architecture, Engineering & Construction (AEC) sector is a highly fragmented, data intensive, project based industry, involving a number of very different professions and organisations. Projects carried ou...
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10th International Conference, GECON 2013, Zaragoza, Spain, September 18-20, 2013. Proceedings
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With the increasing availability of streaming applications from mobile devices to dedicated sensors, understanding how such streaming content can be processed within some time threshold remains an important re...
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In recent years, the rise and rapid adoption of cloud computing has acted as a catalyst for research in related fields: virtualization, distributed and service-oriented computing to name but a few. Whilst clou...
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8th International Workshop, GECON 2011, Paphos, Cyprus, December 5, 2011, Revised Selected Papers
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5th International Conference, IC3 2012, Noida, India, August 6-8, 2012. Proceedings
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9th International Conference, GECON 2012, Berlin, Germany, November 27-28, 2012. Proceedings
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In the originally published version of the paper “Risk Assessment in Service Provider Communities” the name of the author Yacine Rezgui was misspelled as Yacine Regzui.
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In data intensive workflows, which often involve files, transfer between tasks is typically accomplished as fast as the network links allow, and once transferred, the files are buffered/stored at their destina...
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On-line service delivery undertaken between clients and service providers often incurs risks for both the client and the provider, especially when such an exchange takes place in the context of an electronic s...