Amin Hosseinian-Far

Muthu Ramachandran

Dilshad Sarwar

This book demonstrates the use of a wide range of strategic engineering concepts, theories and applied case studies to improve the safety, security and sustainability of complex and large-scale engineering and computer systems. It first details the concepts of system design, life cycle, impact assessment and security to show how these ideas can be brought to bear on the modeling, analysis and design of information systems with a focused view on cloud-computing systems and big data analytics. This informative book is a valuable resource for graduate students, researchers and industry-based practitioners working in engineering, information and business systems as well as strategy.

Strategic Engineering for Cloud Computing and Big Data Analytics

Zaigham Mahmood

This book focuses on the development and implementation of cloud-based, complex software that allows parallelism, fast processing, and real-time connectivity. Software engineering (SE) is the design, development, testing, and implementation of software applications, and this discipline is as well developed as the practice is well established whereas the Cloud Software Engineering (CSE) is the design, development, testing, and continuous delivery of service-oriented software systems and applications (Software as a Service Paradigm). However, with the emergence of the highly attractive cloud computing (CC) paradigm, the tools and techniques for SE are changing. CC provides the latest software development environments and the necessary platforms relatively easily and inexpensively. It also allows the provision of software applications equally easily and on a pay-as-you-go basis. Business requirements for the use of software are also changing and there is a need for applications in big data analytics, parallel computing, AI, natural language processing, and biometrics, etc. These require huge amounts of computing power and sophisticated data management mechanisms, as well as device connectivity for Internet of Things (IoT) environments. In terms of hardware, software, communication, and storage, CC is highly attractive for developing complex software that is rapidly becoming essential for all sectors of life, including commerce, health, education, and transportation. The book fills a gap in the SE literature by providing scientific contributions from researchers and practitioners, focusing on frameworks, methodologies, applications, benefits and inherent challenges/barriers to engineering software using the CC paradigm.

Software Engineering in the Era of Cloud Computing

Victor Chang

Robert J. Walters

Gary Wills

Enterprise security is an important area since all types of organizations require secure and robust environments, platforms and services to work with people, data and computing applications. The book provides selected papers of the Second International Workshop on Enterprise Security held in Vancouver, Canada, November 30-December 3, 2016 in conjunction with CloudCom 2015. The 11 papers were selected from 24 submissions and provide a comprehensive research into various areas of enterprise security such as protection of data, privacy and rights, data ownership, trust, unauthorized access and big data ownership, studies and analysis to reduce risks imposed by data leakage, hacking and challenges of Cloud forensics.

Muthu Ramachandran

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