Nowadays Cloud Computing provides anew paradigm to organizations, offering advantages, not only for its speed but also for the opportunity of save costs when implementing new applications, by just paying for the resources ...

Cloud computing is becoming a key factor in computer science and an important technology for many organizations to deliver different types of services. The companies which provide services to customers are called as cloud ...

We present the results of a study that collected, compared and analyzed the terms and conditions of a number of cloud services vis-a-vis privacy and data protection. First, we assembled a list of factors that comprehensively ...

Specification languages offer abstractions and notations that facilitate the systematic and analytical reasoning about important aspects in a specific domain problematic. In a software engineering process domain, the usage ...

Introduction: Digital preservation has been one of the concerns of several areas of knowledge, especially Information Science, which, through the adoption and effective use of metadata and available metadata patterns, ...

The increase in the demand for computing resources with scalable infrastructure and easily managed has stimulated the emergence of IaaS - Infrastructure-as-a-Service - providers in public clouds, as well as the creation ...

Cloud computing is a business paradigm, where cloud providers offer resources (e.g., storage, computing, network) and cloud consumers use them after accepting a specific service level agreement. Cloud requirements can ...