Competitive Analysis of Task Scheduling Algorithms on a Fault-Prone Machine and the Impact of Resource Augmentation -- Using Performance Forecasting to Accelerate Elasticity -- Parametric Analysis of Mobile Cloud Computing Frameworks using Simulation Modeling -- Bandwidth Aware Resource Optimization for SMT Processors -- User-guided provisioning in federated clouds for distributed calculations -- Compute on the go: A case of mobile-cloud collaborative computing under mobility -- Impact of Virtual Machines Heterogeneity on Datacenter Power Consumption in Data-Intensive Applications -- Implementing the Cloud Software to Data approach for OpenStack environments -- Is Cloud Self-organization Feasible -- Cloud Services composition through Cloud Patterns -- An Eye on the Elephant in the Wild: A Performance Evaluation of Hadoop's Schedulers Under Failures -- Partitioning graph databases by using access patterns -- Cloud Search Based Applications for Big Data - Challenges and Methodologies for Acceleration.