Zhiming Zhao

Challenges Emerging from Future Cloud Application Scenarios

2015 · Procedia Computer Science

The cloud computing paradigm encompasses several key differentiating elements and technologies, tackling a number of inefficiencies, limitations and problems that have been identified in the distributed and virtualized computing domain. Nonetheless, and as it is …

Distributed service‐level agreement management with smart contracts and blockchain

2020 · Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience

Summary The current cloud market is dominated by a few providers, which offer cloud services in a take‐it‐or‐leave‐it manner. However, the dynamism and uncertainty of cloud environments may require the change over time of both …

Integration of Blockchain and Auction Models: A Survey, Some Applications, and Challenges

2021 · arXiv (Cornell University)

In recent years, blockchain has gained widespread attention as an emerging technology for decentralization, transparency, and immutability in advancing online activities over public networks. As an essential market process, auctions have been well studied and …

Socially-Informed Jupyter Notebook Quality: A Role-and Lifecycle-Aware Metrics Framework

2025

Jupyter Notebooks are widely used in data science, education, and research for their ability to combine executable code with narrative and visualization. However, their interactive and exploratory nature often leads to quality concerns—such as inconsistent …