Chapter 1. Exploring the franchisor-franchisee relationship: a logistical service-oriented perspective -- Chapter 2. Migration of diabetes diagnosis system to service-oriented architectures: using decision model and notation -- Chapter 3. SLO-driven monitoring and adaptation of multi-cloud service-based applications -- Chapter 4. A case study of a three-part entrepreneurial strategy in a Japanese accounting cloud service -- Chapter 5. A cloud broker for service adaptation based on interface localization -- Chapter 6. The role of value facilitation regarding cloud service provider profitability in the cloud ecosystem -- Chapter 7. A comprehensive report on security and privacy challenges in software as a service -- Chapter 8. Semi-automated tool support for identification and prioritization of impacted functions in software systems -- Chapter 9. A hybrid approach of regression-testing-based requirement prioritization of web applications -- Chapter 10. Intelligent semantics approaches for adaptive web -- Chapter 11. Applying formal methods to verify web services orchestration and choreography -- Chapter 12. Periodic patterns in dynamic network: mining and parametric analysis -- Chapter 13. An optimal hybrid regression testing approach based on code path pruning -- Chapter 14. Impact analysis of intelligent agents in automatic fault-prone components prediction and testing: impact analysis of intelligent agents in test automation -- Chapter 15. Towards a new extracting and querying approach of fuzzy summaries.