Advanced Technologies and Applications of Cloud Platforms

Dear Colleagues,

Cloud computing offers on-demand access to computing power along with modern data and application services for developers. Ccloud-native computing is an approach to building and running applications that exploits the advantages of the cloud computing delivery model by incorporating DevOps, continuous delivery, microservices, and containers.

To fully benefit from cloud-native applications, cloud platforms should be cost-effective, scalabile, portabile, reliabile, and easy to maintain, traits that are hard to implement efficiently due to their inherent complex nature. Motivated by the above factors, we invite the submission of papers to the present Special Issue, “Advanced Technologies and Applications of Cloud Platforms. Original research, reviews, case studys, and report articles are all welcome.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Testbed and extensive simulations of microservices and cloud-native solutions.
• Optimization for containers, microservices, and cloud-native solutions.
• Fog and edge infrastructures integration for containers, microservices, and cloud-native solutions.
• Formal proof, methods, models, and techniques for containers, microservices and cloud-native solutions.
• Deployment and deploy automation in containers, microservices, and cloud-native solutions.
• Adaptation, exploitation, and deployment for containers, microservices and cloud-native solutions.
• Model-driven design and development of containers, microservices, and cloud-native solutions.
• Considerations of availability, fault-resilience, and scalability in containers, microservices, and cloud-native solutions.
• Serverless applications and function-as-a-service solutions.
• Fault isolations in containers, microservices, and cloud-native solutions.
• Correctness and verification methods of microservices and cloud-native solutions. 
• Best practices and empirical studies on containers, microservices, and cloud-native solutions.
• Infrastructure and integration components for containers, microservices, and cloud-native solutions.
• Design principles and architectural refactoring of containers, microservices, and cloud-native solutions.

Prof. Dr. Joon-Min Gil
Dr. Jisu Park
Guest Editors

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