1. Evaluation criteria to run scientific applications in the cloud / Eduardo Roloff, Alexandre da Silva Carissimi, and Philippe Olivier Alexandre Navaux -- 2. Cloud-based infrastructure for data-intensive e-science applications : requirements and architecture / Yuri Demchenko, Canh Ngo, Paola Grosso, Cees de Laat, and Peter Membrey -- 3. Securing cloud data / Sushmita Ruj and Rajat Saxena -- 4. Adaptive execution of scientific workflow applications on clouds / Rodrigo N. Calheiros, Henry Kasim, Terence Hung, Xiaorong Li, Sifei Lu, Long Wang, Henry Palit, Gary Lee, Tuan Ngo, and Rajkumar Buyya -- 5. Migrating e-science applications to the cloud : methodology and evaluation / Steve Strauch, Vasilios Andrikopoulos, Dimka Karastoyanova, and Karolina Vukojevic-Haupt -- 6. Closing the gap between cloud providers and scientific users / David Susa, Harold Castro, and Mario Villamizar -- 7. Assembling cloud-based geographic information systems : a pragmatic approach using off-the-shelf components / Muhammad Akmal, Ian Allison, and Horacio Gonzalez-Velez -- 8. HCloud, a healthcare-oriented cloud system with improved efficiency in biomedical data processing / Ye Li, Chenguang He, Xiaomao Fan, Xucan Huang, and Yunpeng Cai -- 9. RPig : concise programming framework by integrating R with Pig for big data analytics / MingXue Wang and Sidath B. Handurukande -- 10. AutoDock Gateway for Molecular Docking Simulations in Cloud Systems / Zoltan Farkas, Peter Kacsuk, Tamas Kiss, Peter Borsody, Akos Hajnal, Akos Balasko, and Krisztian Karoczkai -- 11. SaaS clouds supporting biology and medicine / Philip Church, Andrzej Goscinski, Adam Wong, and Zahir Tari -- 12. Energy-aware policies in ubiquitous computing facilities / Marina Zapater, Patricia Arroba, Jose Luis Ayala Rodrigo, Katzalin Olcoz Herrero, and Jose Manuel Moya Fernandez