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SLO-ML: A Language for Service Level Objective Modelling in Multi-cloud Applications
Abdessalam Elhabbash, Assylbek Jumagaliyev, Gordon S. Blair +1
Cloud modelling languages (CMLs) are designed to assist customers in tackling the diversity of services in the cloud market. While many CMLs have been proposed in the literature, t…
Transferable Knowledge for Low-cost Decision Making in Cloud Environments
Faiza Samreen, Gordon S Blair, Yehia Elkhatib
Users of cloud computing are increasingly overwhelmed with the wide range of providers and services offered by each provider. As such, many users select cloud services based on des…
Research Challenges in Nextgen Service Orchestration
Luis M. Vaquero, Felix Cuadrado, Yehia Elkhatib +3
Fog/edge computing, function as a service, and programmable infrastructures, like software-defined networking or network function virtualisation, are becoming ubiquitously used in…
Cloud Brokerage: A Systematic Survey
Abdessalam Elhabbash, Faiza Samreen, James Hadley +1
Background: The proliferation of cloud providers and provisioning levels has opened a space for cloud brokerage services. Brokers intermediate between cloud customers and providers…
Same Same, but Different: A Descriptive Differentiation of Intra-cloud Iaas Services
Yehia Elkhatib, Faiza Samreen, Gordon S. Blair
Users of cloud computing are overwhelmed with choice, even within the services offered by one provider. As such, many users select cloud services based on description alone. We inv…
On Using Micro-Clouds to Deliver the Fog
Yehia Elkhatib, Barry Porter, Heverson B. Ribeiro +3
Cloud computing has demonstrated itself to be a scalable and cost-efficient solution for many real-world applications. However, its modus operandi is not ideally suited to resource…
Daleel: Simplifying Cloud Instance Selection Using Machine Learning
Faiza Samreen, Yehia Elkhatib, Matthew Rowe +1
Decision making in cloud environments is quite challenging due to the diversity in service offerings and pricing models, especially considering that the cloud market is an incredib…
Experiences of Using a Hybrid Cloud to Construct an Environmental Virtual Observatory
Yehia Elkhatib, Gordon S. Blair, Bholanathsingh Surajbali
Environmental science is often fragmented: data is collected using mismatched formats and conventions, and models are misaligned and run in isolation. Cloud computing offers a lot…