Theo Lynn is Full Professor of Digital Business at DCU Business School, Ireland and Director of the Irish Institute of Digital Business.John G. Mooney is Associate Professor of Information Systems and Technology Management at the Pepperdine Graziadio Business School, United States.Jörg Domaschka is Senior Researcher and Group Manager at the Institute of Information Resource Management at Ulm University, Germany and Coordinator of the Horizon 2020 RECAP project.Keith A. Ellis is Senior Research Scientist and Manager of Intel Labs Europe, Ireland.

• Chapter 1.- Towards an Architecture for Reliable Capacity Provisioning for Distributed Clouds.- Chapter 2.- RECAP Data Acquisition and Analytics Methodology.- Chapter 3 - Application Optimisation: Workload Prediction and Autonomous Autoscaling of Distributed Cloud Applications.- Chapter 4 - Application Placement and Infrastructure Optimisation.- Chapter 5 - Simulating Across the Cloud-to-Edge Continuum.-  Chapter 6 - Case Studies in Application Placement and Infrastructure Optimisation.

Theo Lynn is Full Professor of Digital Business at DCU Business School, Ireland and Director of the Irish Institute of Digital Business.John G. Mooney is Associate Professor of Information Systems and Technology Management at the Pepperdine Graziadio Business School, United States.Jörg Domaschka is Senior Researcher and Group Manager at the Institute of Information Resource Management at Ulm University, Germany and Coordinator of the Horizon 2020 RECAP project.Keith A. Ellis is Senior Research Scientist and Manager of Intel Labs Europe, Ireland.

• Chapter 1.- Towards an Architecture for Reliable Capacity Provisioning for Distributed Clouds.- Chapter 2.- RECAP Data Acquisition and Analytics Methodology.- Chapter 3 - Application Optimisation: Workload Prediction and Autonomous Autoscaling of Distributed Cloud Applications.- Chapter 4 - Application Placement and Infrastructure Optimisation.- Chapter 5 - Simulating Across the Cloud-to-Edge Continuum.-  Chapter 6 - Case Studies in Application Placement and Infrastructure Optimisation.

Theo Lynn is Full Professor of Digital Business at DCU Business School, Ireland and Director of the Irish Institute of Digital Business.John G. Mooney is Associate Professor of Information Systems and Technology Management at the Pepperdine Graziadio Business School, United States.Jörg Domaschka is Senior Researcher and Group Manager at the Institute of Information Resource Management at Ulm University, Germany and Coordinator of the Horizon 2020 RECAP project.Keith A. Ellis is Senior Research Scientist and Manager of Intel Labs Europe, Ireland.

• Chapter 1.- Towards an Architecture for Reliable Capacity Provisioning for Distributed Clouds.- Chapter 2.- RECAP Data Acquisition and Analytics Methodology.- Chapter 3 - Application Optimisation: Workload Prediction and Autonomous Autoscaling of Distributed Cloud Applications.- Chapter 4 - Application Placement and Infrastructure Optimisation.- Chapter 5 - Simulating Across the Cloud-to-Edge Continuum.-  Chapter 6 - Case Studies in Application Placement and Infrastructure Optimisation.