Cloud Computing: Principles and Paradigms

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

First and foremost, we are grateful to all the contributing authors for their time, effort, and understanding during the preparation of the book.

We thank Professor Albert Zomaya, editor of the Wiley book series on parallel and distributed computing, for his enthusiastic support and guidance during the preparation of book and enabling us to easily navigate through Wiley's publication process.

We would like to thank members of the book Editorial Advisory Board for their guidance during the preparation of the book. The board members are: Dr. Geng Lin (CISCO Systems, USA), Prof. Manish Parashar (Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey, USA), Dr. Wolfgang Gentzsch (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, München, Germany), Prof. Omer Rana (Cardiff University, UK), Prof. Hai Jin (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China), Dr. Simon See (Sun Microsystems, Singapore), Dr. Greg Pfister (IBM, USA (retired)), Prof. Ignacio M. Llorente (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain), Prof. Geoffrey Fox (Indiana University, USA), and Dr. Walfredo Cirne (Google, USA).

All chapters were reviewed and authors have updated their chapters to address review comments. We thank members of the Melbourne CLOUDS Lab for their time and effort in peer reviewing of chapters.

Raj would like to thank his family members, especially Smrithi, Soumya, and Radha Buyya, for their love, understanding, and support during the preparation of the book. James would like to thank his wife, Amy, for her love and ...