Experiences in building a mOSAIC of clouds

Journal of Cloud Computing

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Petcu, Dana ^a   Di Martino, Beniamino ^b   Venticinque, Salvatore ^b   Rak, Massimiliano ^b   Máhr, Tamás ^c   Lopez, Gorka Esnal ^d   Brito, Fabrice ^e   Cossu, Roberto ^f   Stopar, Miha ^g   Šperka, Svatopluk ^h   Stankovski, Vlado ⁱ  

^a WEST UNIVERSITY OF TIMISOARA   (Romania)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^c Telecommunication Division   (Hungary)

^d TECNALIA RESEARCH AND INNOVATION   (Spain)

^e Terradue Srl   (Italy)

^f ESA ESRIN   (Italy)

^g XLAB doo   (Slovenia)

^h BRNO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; MIDDLEWARE;

APPLICATION DEVELOPERS; CLOUD APPLICATIONS; CLOUD COMPUTING SERVICES; DESIGN CONCEPT; IN-BUILDINGS; STANDARD INTERFACE;

SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

EID: 84926426273     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2192113X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2192-113X-2-12     Document Type: Article

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