Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Computational Intelligence for Cloud Computing

The papers in this special section which examine computational intelligence for cloud computing. These applications have emerged as an exciting new computing environment where computing infrastructure, platforms, and software application services are offered at low cost from remote very-large-scale data centers accessed over the Internet. Since it offers huge savings in business costs, cloud computing has recently received large amounts of attention and continued to be of high priority for researchers and developers in both academia and industry. The emergence of cloud computing environments poses a number of difficulties, complex issues in optimization and learning as well as other aspects. They call for new paradigms because the arising problems have become intractable when dealt with the use of traditional methods.