Special section: Recent advances in utility and cloud computing

摘要

Welcome to the special issue of Future Generation Computer System (FGCS) Journal in Utility and Cloud Computing. This special issue compiles a number of excellent technical contributions that significantly advance the state-of-the-art in utility and cloud computing comprising selected and extended contributions from the UCC 2010, the 2010 International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, held in Chennai, India, in December 2010. Papers selected for UCC 2010 were peer-reviewed by 2-3 reviewers. Authors have improved their papers based on conference reviews and presented them at UCC 2010 in India. Based on the feedback authors received at the conference, they have further extended their papers and submitted them to FGCS. All papers submitted to FGCS are further reviewed to meet its high standard expectation. Authors were requested to revise their papers to address comments from FGCS reviewers and to resubmit them. These revised papers were finally accepted by the Editor-in-Chief of FGCS for publication in this special issue.