EAGER:Collaborative Research: Model based Autonomic Cloud Computing Software Technology

While IT clouds originally arose as centralized providers of complete services, they are also being extensively used to enable or complement applications delivered by devices that are mobile and/or remote. Typical examples include smart phone applications (apps) that take advantage of clouds for services that cannot fully run on remote devices due to their limitations in power and/or resources. This introduces the necessity of addressing personalized quality‐of‐service (QoS) requirements as mobile devices become pervasive points of cloud access by individual users. The resulting systems are distributed and complex, and require end‐to‐end management techniques that enable unprecedented mobility, customizability, interoperability and generality.