Service Computing Architecture Frontiers

Abstract

The services computing is a new cross-discipline that covers the science and technology needed to bridge the gap between business services and ITtelecommunication services. The goal of services computing is to develop new computing technology and thereby enable more advanced ITtelecommunication services to support business services more efficiently and effectively. By taking advantage of virtualized resources, cloud computing presents an attractive means to address the challenges while realizing the potential of services computing. Consequently, computational scientists are turning their attention to emerging cloud and service computing architectures as such, it has come to the picture seeking solutions for computing and IT infrastructures to be service level agreement, dynamic intelligence and environmentally friendly. This special issue is in response to the increasing convergence between emerging services and cloud computing architectures, while different approaches exist, challenges and opportunities are numerous in this context. The research papers selected for this special issue represent recent progresses in the field, including works on heteroge- neous computing architectures, dynamic intelligence technologies, elastic management algorithms, virtualization and networking. This special issue includes five extended version of the selected paper originally presented at the 4th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (IEEE CloudCom 2012), held at Taipei, Taiwan. The papers selected for this issue not only contribute valuable insights and results but also have particular relevance to the emerging services and cloud computing architectures. All of them present high quality results for tackling problems arising from the ever-growing cloud computing, heterogeneous computing as well as dynamic intelligence technologies. We believe that this special issue provides novel ideas and state-of-the-art techniques in the field, and stimulates future research in the emerging service and cloud computing community.