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This paper describes the CIRANO platform, a cloud Integrated Development Environments (IDE) that substantially supports Model Driven Development (MDD) and team collaboration, in order to facilitate the development of cloud–based applications. The paper presents the state of the art in the field and discusses the technical details of CIRANO architecture and its modular implementation. The main features of the proposed platform are presented as a case study application concerning the update and porting of an existing collaboration system, called Comidor. The paper discusses the findings in comparison with existing tools and proposes extensions of the platform as future work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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 the case for all emerging technologies, their adoption led to the presentation of new challenges and new complexities. In this paper we present key application areas and capabilities of future scenarios, which are not tackled by current advancements and highlight specific requirements and goals for advancements in the cloud computing domain. We discuss these requirements and goals across different focus areas of cloud computing, ranging from cloud service and application integration, development environments and abstractions, to interoperability and relevant to it aspects such as legislation. The future application areas and their requirements are also mapped to the aforementioned areas in order to highlight their dependencies and potential for moving cloud technologies forward and contributing towards their wider adoption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]