Cloud Computing and Service Science

This book constitutes extended, revised and selected papers from the 7th Ith International Conference on Cloud Computing and Service Science, CLOSER 2017, held in Porto, Portugal, in April 2017. The 16 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 123 submissions. CLOSER 2017 focused on the emerging area of Cloud Computing, inspired by some latest advances that concern the infrastructure, operations and available services throughout the global network.