A description of ConPaaS as a whole:

• ConPaaS: a Platform for Hosting Elastic Cloud Applications. Guillaume Pierre and Corina Stratan. IEEE Internet Computing 16(5), September-October 2012.
• ConPaaS: an Integrated Runtime Environment for Elastic Cloud Applications. Guillaume Pierre, Ismail el Helw, Corina Stratan, Ana Oprescu, Thilo Kielmann, Thorsten Schütt, Jan Stender, Matej Artač, Aleš Cernivec. Poster at the Middleware conference, December 2011.

About the Scalarix service:

• Enhanced Paxos Commit for Transactions on DHTs. Florian Schintke, Alexander Reinefeld, Seif Haridi and Thorsten Schütt. In 10th IEEE/ACM Int. Conf. on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid2010), pp. 448-454, May 2010.
  
• A Scalable, Transactional Data Store for Future Internet Services. Alexander Reinefeld, Florian Schintke, Thorsten Schütt and Seid Haridi. In: G. Tselentis et al. (eds.) Towards the Future Internet – A European Research Perspective, IOS Press, ISBN 978-1-60750-007-0, pp. 148-159, 2009.
  

About the Task-farming service:

• Fast (Re-)Configuration of Mixed On-demand and Spot Instance Pools for High-throughput Computing. Alexandra Vintila, Ana-Maria Oprescu, and Thilo Kielmann. In ORMaCloud 2013, International Workshop on Optimization Techniques for Resource Management in Clouds, co-located with HPDC 2013, New York, NY, USA, June 2013.
• Stochastic Tail-Phase Optimization for Bag-of-Tasks Execution in Clouds.  Ana-Maria Oprescu, Thilo Kielmann, Haralambie Leahu. In 5th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2012), Chicago, IL, USA, November 2012.
  
• Budget Estimation and Control for Bag-of-Tasks Scheduling in Clouds. Ana-Maria Oprescu, Thilo Kielmann and Haralambie Leahu. Parallel Processing Letters, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 219-243, June 2011.
  
• Bag-of-Tasks Scheduling under Budget Constraints. Ana-Maria Oprescu and Thilo Kielmann. In 2nd IEEE International Conference on cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2010) , Indianapolis, USA, Nov/Dec 2010.

About Web resource provisioning:

• Autoscaling Web Applications in Heterogeneous Cloud Infrastructures. Hector Fernandez, Guillaume Pierre and Thilo Kielmann. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering, Boston, MA (USA), March 2014.
• Resource Provisioning of Web Applications in Heterogeneous Clouds. Jiang Dejun, Guillaume Pierre and Chi-Hung Chi. In 2nd USENIX Conference on Web Application Development, June 2011.
• Autonomous Resource Provisioning for Multi-Service Web Applications. Jiang Dejun, Guillaume Pierre and Chi-Hung Chi. In 19th International World-Wide Web conference, April 2010.

About scaling and VM deployment:

• Scalable Virtual Machine Deployment Using VM Image Caches. Kaveh Razavi and Thilo Kielmann. In  SC13, Denver, CO, USA, November 2013.
• Reducing VM Startup Time and Storage Costs by VM Image Content Consolidation. Kaveh Razavi, Liviu Mihai Razorea, and Thilo Kielmann. In Workshop on Dependability and Interoperability in Heterogeneous Clouds (DIHC13) , held in conjunction with Euro-Par 2013, Aachen, Germany, August 2013.
• Kangaroo: A Tenant-Centric Software-Defined Cloud Architecture. Kaveh Razavi, Ana Ion, Genc Tato, Kyuho Jeong, Renato Figueiredo, Guillaume Pierre and Thilo Kielmann. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E), Tempe, AZ, USA, March 2015.