Intelligent Cloud Computing

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-X

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2. Invited Papers

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Cloud Computing: Towards Making Computing a Utility

      • Mohamed Hefeeda

      Pages 3-7

   3. Semantic Engine and Cloud Agency for Vendor Agnostic Retrieval, Discovery, and Brokering of Cloud Services

      • Alba Amato, Giuseppina Cretella, Beniamino Di Martino, Luca Tasquier, Salvatore Venticinque

      Pages 8-25

   4. A Concurrency Mitigation Proposal for Sharing Environments: An Affinity Approach Based on Applications Classes

      • Antonio R. Mury, Bruno Schulze, Fabio L. Licht, Luis C. E. de Bona, Mariza Ferro

      Pages 26-45

   5. On Cloud Spot Market: An Overview of the Research

      • Zheng Li, Liam O’Brien, Rajiv Ranjan, Shayne Flint, Albert Y. Zomaya

      Pages 46-61

3. Resource Management & Energy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63

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   2. Analysis and Optimization on FlexDPDP: A Practical Solution for Dynamic Provable Data Possession

      • Ertem Esiner, Alptekin Küpçü, Öznur Özkasap

      Pages 65-83

   3. Leveraging Ad-hoc Networking and Mobile Cloud Computing to Exploit Short-Lived Relationships Among Users on the Move

      • Jack Fernando Bravo-Torres, Martín López-Nores, Yolanda Blanco-Fernández, José Juan Pazos-Arias, Esteban Fernando Ordióñez-Morales

      Pages 84-102

   4. Energy Consumption Analysis of HPC Applications Using NoSQL Database Feature of EnergyAnalyzer

      • Shajulin Benedict, R. S. Rejitha, C. Bright

      Pages 103-118

4. Security

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119

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   2. A Low-Overhead Secure Communication Framework for an Inter-cloud Environment

      • Ali Sajjad, Muttukrishnan Rajarajan, Theo Dimitrakos

      Pages 121-136

   3. Analysing Virtual Machine Security in Cloud Systems

      • Taimur Al Said, Omer F. Rana

      Pages 137-151

   4. Cloud Computing: Security Issues Overview and Solving Techniques Investigation

      • Yu Yang, Chenggui Zhao, Tilei Gao

      Pages 152-167

5. Back Matter

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This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Conference on Intelligent Cloud Computing, held in Muscat, Oman, in February 2014. The 10 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 18 submissions. The papers cover topics in the areas of resource management and energy efficiency and security. They include 5 invited talks from leading organizations working in cloud computing in Oman and in the region.

• ad-hoc networking
• cloud computing
• cloud interoperability
• cloud ontology
• distributed architectures
• distributed systems
• energy consumption
• knowledge management
• market-driven mechanism
• mobile computing
• multi-agent systems
• network services
• security and privacy
• semantic discovery
• sporadic social networks
• spot pricing
• storage architectures
• tools
• trusted cloud computing solving techniques
• utility computing

• Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman

  Asma Al-Saidi

• GUtech, Muscat, Oman

  Rudolf Fleischer

• Zayed University, Dubai, Utd.Arab.Emir.

  Zakaria Maamar

• Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

  Omer F. Rana

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