Csilla Zsigri

TL;DR: By addressing the whole service life cycle, taking into account several cloud architectures, and by taking a holistic approach to sustainable service provisioning, the toolkit aims to provide a foundation for a reliable, sustainable, and trustful cloud computing industry.

TL;DR: The European project OPTIMIS is focussing on optimisation of cloud infrastructure services meeting demands from service providers, e.g. when public and private Clouds are federated in different configurations.

TL;DR: Business aspects of grid, such as business models and value networks have not been considered broadly in research yet and this paper contributes to fill this gap by describing the value network of a grid case study and by aggregating the results into a generic grid value chain.

TL;DR: The core technology, various security aspects and how they are addressed in the SmartLM prototype are discussed, and the evaluation of the prototype through a number of usage scenarios are presented.

TL;DR: This paper presents a novel approach for managing software licenses as web service resources in distributed service oriented environments where licenses become mobile objects, which may move to the environment where required to authorise the execution of a license protected application.