This thesis presents a new framework allowing cloud services to be stateful, cloud resource state and characteristics to be published, and brokering for easy cloud resource discovery and selection to be offered. Using the framework, new technology developed significantly simplifies the discovery, selection and use of clusters on the Internet
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Submitted to the School of Information Technology of the Faculty of Science and Technology, Deakin University
Degree conferred 2010
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Deakin University, Victoria, 2009
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 206-212)
