Cloud Computing and Big Data Mining—2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

Cloud computing and big data mining are evolving rapidly through advances in distributed systems, artificial intelligence, machine learning, edge computing, and cloud-native software engineering. As analytics become increasingly integrated with distributed applications, attention is shifting beyond performance and scalability toward resilience, governance, explainability, compliance, and runtime adaptation. Hybrid and multi-cloud architectures, together with virtualization, containerization, and orchestration technologies, are enabling more flexible, intelligent, and self-adaptive computing environments.

This Special Issue provides a forum for high-quality research on emerging architectures, algorithms, and methodologies for big data analytics using distributed cloud computing resources. We welcome contributions on cloud and edge architectures, distributed data mining, AI and ML in cloud services, policy-aware orchestration, AI governance, self-healing and self-regulating systems, autonomic and autopoietic computing, and knowledge-driven approaches to resilient distributed infrastructures. We particularly encourage submissions that examine paradigm shifts in distributed AI and cloud systems, including intrinsically governed and adaptive architectures, as illustrated by recent research on Mindful Machine systems, as published in the first edition of this Special Issue.

We invite high-quality papers that discuss the technologies and methodologies advancing big data analytics utilizing distributed cloud computing resources.

Dr. Rao Mikkilineni
Guest Editor

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