chapter 1 Understanding the Cloud Computing Landscape / chapter 2 Science Gateways: Harnessing Clouds and Software Services for Science / chapter 3 Enterprise Knowledge Clouds: Next Generation Knowledge Management Systems? / chapter 4 Real Cases and Applications of Cloud Computing. JINZY ZHU -- chapter 5 Large-Scale Data Processing / chapter 6 Toward a Reliable Cloud Computing Service / chapter 7 Abstractions for Cloud Computing with Condor / chapter 8 Exploiting the Cloud of Computing Environments: An Application’s Perspective / chapter 9 Granules: A Lightweight Runtime for Scalable Computing with Support for Map-Reduce. SHRIDEEP PALLICKARA, JALIYA EKANAYAKE, AND GEOFFREY FOX -- chapter 10 Dynamic and Adaptive Rule-Based Work¡ow Engine for Scienti¢c Problems in Distributed Environments / chapter 11 Transparent Cross-Platform Access to Software Services Using GridSolve and GridRPC / chapter 12 High-Performance Parallel Computing with Cloud and Cloud Technologies / chapter 13 BioVLAB: Bioinformatics Data Analysis Using Cloud Computing and Graphical Work¡ow Composers / chapter 14 Scale-Out RDF Molecule Store for E¤cient, Scalable Data Integration and Querying / chapter 15 Enabling XML Capability for Hadoop and Its Applications in Healthcare / chapter 16 Toward a QoS-Focused SaaS Evaluation Model / chapter 17 Risk Evaluation-based Selection Approach for Transactional Services Composition