Design Support for Performance Aware Dynamic Application (Re-)Distribution in the Cloud

@article{Sez2015DesignSF,
  title={Design Support for Performance Aware Dynamic Application (Re-)Distribution in the Cloud},
  author={Santiago G{\'o}mez S{\'a}ez and Vasilios Andrikopoulos and Frank Leymann and Steve Strauch},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Services Computing},
  year={2015},
  volume={8},
  pages={225-239}
}
The wide adoption of the cloud computing paradigm by many different domains has increased both the number and type of available offerings as a service, e.g. Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) or Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and with them the possibilities to deploy and operate an application partially or completely in the cloud. The need for providing design support to application developers in this environment is the focus of this work. Toward this goal, in the following we first scope the… 
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