Cloud Computing

<p>Part I: Limitations and Challenges of Cloud Environments</p><p>Attacks in Public Clouds: Can They Hinder the Rise of the Cloud?<br>Saeed Shafieian, Mohammad Zulkernine, and Anwar Haque</p><p>Distributed Database Management Systems: Architectural Design Choices for the Cloud<br>Joarder Mohammad Mustafa Kamal and Manzur Murshed</p><p>Quality of Service and Service Level Agreements for Cloud Environments: Issues and Challenges<br>Inderveer Chana and Sukhpal Singh</p><p>Part II: Current Developments and R&D Solutions</p><p>A Methodology for Cloud Security Risk Management<br>Mariam Kiran</p><p>SecDSIM: A Framework for Secure Data Storage and Identity Management in the Cloud<br>Shaga Praveen and G.R. Gangadharan</p><p>CloudReports: An Extensible Simulation Tool for Energy-Aware Cloud Computing Environments<br>Thiago Teixeira Sá, Rodrigo N. Calheiros, and Danielo G. Gomes</p><p>Cloud Computing: Efficient Congestion Control in Data Center Networks<br>Chi Harold Liu, Jian Shi, and Jun Fan</p><p>Energy-Aware Virtual Machine Consolidation in IaaS Cloud Computing<br>Md Hasanul Ferdaus and Manzur Murshed</p><p>Software-Defined Networking (SDN) for Cloud Applications<br>Lin Lin and Ping Lin</p><p>Part III: Advances in Cloud Technologies and Future Trends</p><p>Virtualization and Cloud Security: Benefits, Caveats and Future Developments<br>Flavio Lombardi and Roberto Di Pietro</p><p>Quality-of-Service Data Warehouse for the Selection of Cloud Services: A Recent Trend<br>Ahmad Karawash, Hamid Mcheick, and Mohamed Dbouk</p><p>Characterizing Cloud Federation Approaches<br>Attila Kertesz</p><p>Security Aspects of Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) in Cloud Computing<br>Faria Mehak, Rahat Masood, Yumna Ghazi, Awais Shibli, and Sharifullah Khan</p><p>Beyond the Clouds: How Should Next Generation Utility Computing Infrastructures Be Designed?<br>Marin Bertier, Frédéric Desprez, Gilles Fedak, Adrien Lebre, Anne-Cécile Orgerie, Jonathan Pastor, Flavien Quesnel, Jonathan Rouzaud-Cornabas, and Cédric Tedeschi</p>