Part I: Access Control Mechanisms and Cloud Security
Towards a GPU Cloud: Benefits and Security Issues
Flavio Lombardi and Roberto Di Pietro
Taxonomy and Classification of Access Control Models for Cloud Environments
Abhishek Majumder, Suyel Namasudra and Samir Nath
Access Control as a Service in Cloud: Challenges, Impact and Strategies
Muhammad Awais Shibli, Rahat Masood, Umme Habiba, Ayesha Kanwal, Yumna Ghazi and Rafia Mumtaz
Part II: Standards, Brokerage Services and Certification
Realization of Open Cloud Computing Standards, Forums and Platforms
Siddesh G.M. and K.G. Srinivasa
Role of Broker in InterCloud Environment
Saswati Mukherjee and Shyamala Loganathan
Patterns of Trust: Role of Certification for SME Cloud Adoption
Alea M. Fairchild
Part III: Frameworks for ERP, Big Data and Interoperability
A Framework for Evaluating Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems
T. Chandrakumar and S. Parthasarathy
DIPAR: A Framework for Implementing Big Data Science in Organizations
Luis Eduardo Bautista Villalpando, Alain April and Alain Abran
A Framework for Cloud Interoperability Based on Compliance and Conformance
José Carlos Martins Delgado
Part IV: Management, Governance and Capability Assessment
Survey of Elasticity Management Solutions in Cloud Computing
Amro Najjar, Xavier Serpaggi, Christophe Gravier and Olivier Boissier
From Cloud Management to Cloud Governance
Teodor-Florin Fortis and Victor Ion Munteanu
Towards the Development of a Cloud Service Capability Assessment Framework
Noel Carroll
Part V: Applications in Education and Other Scenarios
Cloud Computing within Higher Education: Applying Knowledge as a Service (KaaS)
Alexandros Chrysikos and Rupert Ward
Cloud Computing Environment for e-Learning Services for Students with Disabilities
Aleksandar Milic, Konstantin Simic and Milos Milutinovic
Application Scenarios Suitable For Deployment in Cloud Environments
Rahul Bandopadhyaya and Vinay Rangaraju Nagavara
About the Author: Prof. Zaigham Mahmood is an Associate Lecturer (Research) at the University of Derby, UK; Senior Technology Consultant at Debesis Education, UK; Professor Extraordinaire at North West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa; and Foreign Professor at NUST Islamabad, Pakistan. His other publications include the successful Springer books Cloud Computing: Methods and Practical Approaches, Cloud Computing for Enterprise Architectures, and Software Engineering Frameworks for the Cloud Computing Paradigm.
