@INPROCEEDINGS{Wang2012b, author={Wenting Wang and Haopeng Chen and Xi Chen}, booktitle={Ubiquitous Intelligence Computing and 9th International Conference on Autonomic Trusted Computing (UIC/ATC), 2012 9th International Conference on}, title={An Availability-Aware Virtual Machine Placement Approach for Dynamic Scaling of Cloud Applications}, year={2012}, month={sept.}, volume={}, number={}, pages={509 -516}, keywords={Availability;Computational modeling;Dynamic scheduling;Resource management;Servers;Software;Virtual machining;cloud computing;resource allocation;virtual machines;VM-based physical locations;availability-aware virtual machine placement approach;cloud computing;cloud resources;computing resource allocation;dynamic complex workload;dynamic scaling;dynamically provision virtualization resources;hierarchical structured cloud;horizontal scaling;on-demand ability;vertical scaling;Availability;Cloud-computing;Resizing;Scaling up and down;VMs placement;}, doi={10.1109/UIC-ATC.2012.31}, ISSN={},}