Green Computing is a recent trend in computer science, which tries to reduce the energy
consumption and carbon footprint produced by computers on distributed platforms such as …

Cloud computing has become an important paradigm in which scalable resources such as
CPU, memory, disk and IO devices can be provided to users to remotely process their …

Cloud computing is very popular because of its unique features such as scalability, elasticity,
on-demand service, and security. A large number of tasks are performed simultaneously in a …

In this paper, we investigate the problem of scheduling precedence-constrained parallel
applications on heterogeneous computing systems (HCSs) like cloud computing …

In virtualized cloud computing systems, energy reduction is a serious concern since it can
offer many major advantages, such as reducing running costs, increasing system efficiency …

The massive growth of cloud computing leads to huge amounts of energy consumption and
release of carbon footprints as data centers are housed by a large number of servers …

Cloud computing enables the execution of various applications submitted by the users in the
virtualized Cloud environment. However, the Cloud infrastructure consumes a significant …

Energy conservation is a major concern in cloud computing systems because it can bring
several important benefits such as reducing operating costs, increasing system reliability …

With the emerging of many data centers around the globe, heavy loads of large-scale
commercial and scientific applications executed in the cloud call for efficient cloud resource …

Mitigating energy consumption in Clouds reduces operational costs for providers. Power
management policies which aim to reduce total energy consumed in data-centers pose …