security-as-a-service

SLA management for Clouds

self-organisation in Clouds and federation of Clouds

applications using multiple Clouds

interoperability between Clouds

portability of Cloud based applications

run-time selection of Cloud services

reliability of Cloud services

auto-scaling techniques

scheduling over heterogeneous Clouds

dynamic load balancing between multiple Clouds

architectures for automatic management of applications based on multiple Clouds

model-driven architectures for multiple Cloud usage scenarios

open-source support for Cloud computing

Cloud provider selection mechanisms