Developing interoperable and federated cloud architecture /œcGabor Kecskemeti, Attila Kertes, and Zsolt Nemeth, editors

Table of Contents: “…Chandrasekaran -- Characterizing PaaS solutions enabling cloud federations / Tamas Pflanzner [and 3 others] -- Highly available fault-tolerant cloud database services / Chetan Jaiswal, Vijay Kumar -- Distributed multi-cloud based building data analytics / Ioan Petri [and 7 others] -- Decentralised repositories for transparent and efficient virtual machine operations: architecture of the ENTICE project / Simon Ostermann [and 5 others] -- EUBrazilCC federated cloud: a transatlantic multi-cloud infrastructure / José Luis Vivas [and 14 others] -- Federated IaaS resource brokerage / Bruno Veloso [and 3 others] -- GPGPU as a service: providing GPU-acceleration services to federated cloud systems / Javier Prades [and 3 others] -- Volunteer clouds: from volunteer computing to interconnected infrastructures / Attila Csaba Marosi, Péter Kacsuk…”

The selection of ministers around the world by Dowding, Keith M.

Table of Contents: “…: achieving and retaining ministerial office / Jennifer Curtin -- Australia : ministerial characteristics in the Australian Federal Government / Keith Dowding and Chris Lewis -- Japan : ministerial selection and de-selection / Mikitaka Masuyma and Benjamin Nyblade -- South Korea : selection and de-selections of ministers in a presidential system / Won-Taek Kang -- India : the selection and de-selection of cabinet ministers / Csaba Nikolenyi -- Pakistan : ministerial turnover in the federal cabinet / Mariam Mufti -- Russia : cabinet formation and careers in a super-presidential system / Elena Semenova -- Turkey : cabinet dynamics and ministerial careers, 1950-2011 / Hande Mutlu-Eren -- Israel : the choosing of the chosen / Ofer Kenig and Shlomit Barnea -- Nigeria : cabinet dynamics amid structural changes in a post-colonial state / Henry A. …”