Institute of Architecture of Application Systems Design Support for Performance Aware Dynamic Application (Re-)Distribution in the Cloud Santiago Gómez Sáez, Vasilios Andrikopoulos, Frank Leymann, Steve Strauch Institute of Architecture of Application Systems, University of Stuttgart, Germany {gomez-saez, andrikopoulos, leymann, strauch}@iaas.uni-stuttgart.de : @article {ART-2014-12, author = {Santiago G{\'o}mez S{\'a}ez and Vasilios Andrikopoulos and Frank Leymann and Steve Strauch}, title = {{Design Support for Performance Aware Dynamic Application (Re-)Distribution in the Cloud}}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Service Computing}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, pages = {1--14}, type = {Article in Journal}, month = {December}, year = {2014}, language = {English}, cr-category = {D.2.11 Software Engineering Software Architectures, C.2.4 Distributed Systems, D.2.8 Software Engineering Metrics}, contact = {Santiago G{\'o}mez S{\'a}ez:
[email protected]}, department = {University of Stuttgart, Institute of Architecture of Application Systems}, } © 2014 IEEE Computer Society. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained from the IEEE. This article has been accepted for publication in a future issue of this journal, but has not been fully edited. Content may change prior to final publication. Citation information: DOI 10.1109/TSC.2014.2381237, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing JOURNAL OF TRANSACTIONS ON SERVICES COMPUTING, VOL. -, NO. -, SEPTEMBER 2014 1 Design Support for Performance Aware Dynamic Application (Re-)Distribution in the Cloud Santiago Gomez´ S´aez, Vasilios Andrikopoulos, Frank Leymann, Steve Strauch Abstract—The wide adoption of the Cloud computing paradigm by many different domains has increased both the number and type of available offerings as a service, e.g.