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Table of Contents
Preface................................................................................................................................................... xv
Section 1
Foundations
Chapter 1
Cloud Federations: Requirements, Properties, and Architectures........................................................... 1
Marcio R. M. Assis, University of Campinas, Brazil
Luiz Fernando Bittencourt, University of Campinas, Brazil
Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz, Universidad of Zaragoza, Spain
Craig A. Lee, The Aerospace Corporation, USA
Chapter 2
Regulating European Clouds: The New European Data Protection Framework................................... 42
Szilvia Varadi, University of Szeged, Hungary
Chapter 3
Identity and Access Management in the Cloud Computing Environments........................................... 61
Manoj V. Thomas, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India
K. Chandrasekaran, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India
Chapter 4
Characterizing PaaS Solutions Enabling Cloud Federations................................................................. 91
Tamas Pflanzner, University of Szeged, Hungary
Roland Tornyai, University of Szeged, Hungary
Ákos Zoltán Gorácz, University of Szeged, Hungary
Attila Kertesz, University of Szeged, Hungary
Section 2
Practice and Experience
Chapter 5
Highly Available Fault-Tolerant Cloud Database Services................................................................. 119
Chetan Jaiswal, University of Missouri Kansas City, USA
Vijay Kumar, University of Missouri Kansas City, USA



Chapter 6
Distributed Multi-Cloud Based Building Data Analytics.................................................................... 143
Ioan Petri, Cardiff University, UK
Javier Diaz-Montes, Rutgers University, USA
Mengsong Zou, Rutgers University, USA
Ali Reza Zamani, Rutgers University, USA
Thomas H Beach, Cardiff School of Engineering, UK
Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK
Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA
Yacine Rezgui, Cardiff University, UK
Chapter 7
Decentralised Repositories for Transparent and Efficient Virtual Machine Operations:
Architecture of the ENTICE Project.................................................................................................... 170
Simon Ostermann, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Gabor Kecskemeti, MTA-SZTAKI, Hungary
Salman Taherizadah, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Radu Prodan, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Thomas Fahringer, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Vlado Stankovski, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Chapter 8
EUBrazilCC Federated Cloud: A Transatlantic Multi-Cloud Infrastructure....................................... 220
José Luis Vivas, Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil
Francisco Brasileiro, Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil
Abmar Barros, Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil
Giovanni Farias da Silva, Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil
Marcos Nóbrega Jr, Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil
Francisco Germano de Araújo Neto, Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil
Ignacio Blanquer, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
Erik Torres, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
Giovanni Aloisio, Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Brazil
Rosa M. Badia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
Daniele Lezzi, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
Antonio Tadeu A. Gomes, National Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Brazil
Jacek Cała, Newcastle University, UK
Maria Julia de Lima, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Cristina Ururahy, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Chapter 9
Federated IaaS Resource Brokerage.................................................................................................... 252
Bruno Veloso, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
Fernando Meireles, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
Benedita Malheiro, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
Juan Carlos Burguillo, Universidade de Vigo, Spain

Chapter 10
GPGPU as a Service: Providing GPU-Acceleration Services to Federated Cloud Systems............... 281
Javier Prades, Technical University of Valencia, Spain
Fernando Campos, Technical University of Valencia, Spain
Carlos Reaño, Technical University of Valencia, Spain
Federico Silla, Technical University of Valencia, Spain
Chapter 11
Volunteer Clouds: From Volunteer Computing to Interconnected Infrastructures.............................. 314
Attila Csaba Marosi, MTA SZTAKI, Hungary
Péter Kacsuk, MTA SZTAKI, Hungary
Compilation of References................................................................................................................ 356
About the Contributors..................................................................................................................... 386
Index.................................................................................................................................................... 397