Cloud Computing is a topic that has gained momentum in the last years. Current studies show that anincreasing number of companies is evaluating the promised advantages and considering making use ofcloud services. In this paper we investigate the phenomenon of cloud computing and its importance...

This paper has a twofold concern. First, to show that probabilitypropagation nets (PPNs) can be derived from formulae for conditionalprobabilities. Second, to show that PPNs are usable for (local)propagations of mass distributions, too, if the inscriptions are suitablyadapted.[...]