Computing Continuum: A Quantitative Guide introduces the principles and methods for designing, measuring, and managing distributed services across devices, edge, fog, and cloud infrastructures. It covers the data lifecycle, end-to-end performance, service-level objectives, orchestration, equilibrium, resilience, fragmentation, and security, explaining how these topics shape resource allocation and service quality under changing conditions. The book combines accessible explanations with mathematical models, algorithms, worked numerical examples, and practical scenarios. A familiar kitchen analogy introduces coordination across heterogeneous resources, while a recurring industrial quality-inspection application connects concepts to technical decisions. Review questions and numerical and design exercises help readers examine assumptions, evaluate trade-offs, and apply the methods. Intended for senior undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers, and practitioners, the book provides a structured path from foundational concepts to advanced methods for building and assessing adaptive, resilient, and secure computing continuum services.

Praveen Kumar Donta, currently Associate Professor (Docent) at the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University, Sweden. He worked at the Distributed Systems Group at TU Wien, as a Postdoctoral researcher from July 2021 to June 2024. He received his Ph.D. from the IIT Dhanbad, in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering in June 2021. He was a Visiting Ph.D. fellow at Mobile&Cloud Lab, University of Tartu, Estonia from July 2019 to Jan 2020. He received his M.Tech and B.Tech from JNTUA, Ananthapur, with Distinction in 2014 and 2012, respectively. His current research is on learning-driven distributed computing continuum systems, Casual and Conscious Continuum Systems, and Intelligent Data Protocols. Schahram Dustdar (Fellow, IEEE) is a full professor of computer science and heads TU Wien's Distributed Systems Group. He is also ICREA research professor, UPF, Barcelona, Spain. His research interests include distributed systems, Edge Intelligence, complex and autonomic software systems. He's the editor in chief of Computing; associate editor of ACM Transactions on the Web, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, and IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. He's also on the editorial boards of IEEE Internet Computing and IEEE Computer. He has received the ACM distinguished scientist award and distinguished speaker Award and the IBM Faculty Award. He is an elected member of Academia Europaea, where he's was Informatics Section chairman from 2015 to 2022. He is an AAIA fellow where he is the current President.