GARCÍA GALÁN , Jesús

Embedded and self-adaptive systems demand continuous adap- tation and reconfiguration activities based on changing quality condi- tions and context information. As a consequence, systems have to be (re)deployed several times and software components need to be mapped onto new or existing hardware pieces. Today, the way to determine an optimal...

Since the emergence of XaaS and Cloud Computing paradigms, the number and complexity of available services have been increasing enormously. These services usually o er a plethora of con guration options, which can even include additional services provided as a bundled o er. In this scenario, usual tasks, such as description, discovery and...

Multi-tenancy is a key pillar of cloud services. It allows different users to share computing and virtual resources transparently, meanwhile guaranteeing substantial cost savings. Due to the tradeoff between scalability and customization, one of the major drawbacks of multi-tenancy is limited configurability. Since users may often have...

Identifying which part of a local system should be migrated to a public Cloud environment is often a difficult and error prone process. With the significant (and increasing) number of commercial Cloud providers, choosing a provider whose capability best meets requirements is also often difficult. Most Cloud service providers offer large amounts...

With an increasing number of cloud computing offerings in the market, migrating an existing computational infrastructure to the cloud requires comparison of different offers in order to find the most suitable configuration. Cloud providers offer many configuration options, such as location, purchasing mode, redundancy, and extra storage. Often,...