New directions in mobile, hybrid, and heterogeneous clouds for cyberinfrastructures

With the increasing availability of mobile devices and data generated by end-users, scientific instruments and simulations solving many of our most important scientific and engineering problems require innovative technical solutions. These solutions should provide the whole chain to process data and services from the mobile users to the cloud infrastructure, which must also integrate heterogeneous clouds to provide availability, scalability, and data privacy. This special issue presents the results of particular research works showing advances on mobile, hybrid, and heterogeneous clouds for modern cyberinfrastructures. (C) 2018 Published by Elsevier B.V.