Published: 2012-10-23

Introduction to the Special Issue

Jose Luis Vazquez-Poletti, Dana Petcu, Francesco Lelli

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Policy-Based Scheduling of Cloud Services

Faris Nizamic, Viktoriya Degeler, Rix Groenboom, Alexander Lazovik

187-200

Challenges for the comprehensive management of Cloud Services in a PaaS framework

Sergio Garcia-Gomez, Miguel Jimenez-Ganan, Yehia Taher, Christof Momm, Frederic Junker, Jozsef Biro, Andreas Menychtas, Vasilios Andrikopoulos, Steve Strauch

201-214

On Engineering Cloud Applications - State of the Art, Shortcomings Analysis, and Approach

Yehia Taher, Dinh Khoa Nguyen, Francesco Lelli, Willem-Jan van den Heuvel, Mike Papazoglou

215-232

Datastores supporting Services Lifecycle in the framework of Cloud Governance

Adrian Copie, Teodor Florin Fortis, Victor Ion Munteanu, Viorel Negru

251-268

A Distributed Program Global Execution Control Environment Applied to Load balancing

Janusz Borkowski, Damian Kopa, Eryk Laskowski, Richard Olejnik, Marek Tudruj

269-284