Trustworthy Cloud Computing

PREFACE

The book I am presenting to the readers now is my third book published with John Wiley & Sons. During all my professional life and work, this has been the best publishing opportunity, and I greatly appreciate it. My first Wiley book [1] published in 2008 is on aspect-oriented programming and its use in trustworthy software development. My second Wiley book published in 2010 is on compilers and on applying the principles of trustworthiness for compilers.

With this new book, I continue my trustworthy computing series with a book on the novel area of cloud computing, which is very attractive for many computer users – both end users and software development professionals.

First, let me explain the meaning of the picture on the front cover. It corresponds to yet another tradition I follow in my Wiley books – the use in the front covers of my personally made photos of my native city of St. Petersburg and its suburbs, such views that can be regarded as having some allegorical meaning related to the book content. This is done to familiarize foreign readers with the beauties of St. Petersburg, in addition to teaching them novel approaches in IT. Please see my two previous Wiley books for the other examples of allegorical St. Petersburg views – the Atlants [1] and the Rostral Columns [2].

On the front cover of this book there is a picture of Urania, the Greek antique muse of astronomy, soaring in the clouds, that can be regarded as a classical style allegory of cloud computing. ...