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With the evolution in cloud technologies, users are becoming acquainted with seamless service provision. Nevertheless, clouds are not a user centric technology, and users become completely dependent on service providers. We propose a novel concept for clouds, where users self-organize to create their clouds. We present such an architecture for user-centric clouds, which relies on self-managed clouds based on doctrine and on identity management concepts.

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    João Paulo Barraca, Alfredo Matos & Rui L. Aguiar

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Barraca, J.P., Matos, A. & Aguiar, R.L. User Centric Community Clouds. Wireless Pers Commun 58, 31–48 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-011-0287-6

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