Due to significant industrial demands toward software systems with increasing complexity
and challenging quality requirements, software architecture design has become an …

Scheduling is essentially a decision-making process that enables resource sharing among a
number of activities by determining their execution order on the set of available resources …

Now-a-days, Cloud computing is a technology which eludes provision cost while providing
scalability and elasticity to accessible resources on a pay-per-use basis. To satisfy the …

To program in distributed computing environments such as grids and clouds, workflow is
adopted as an attractive paradigm for its powerful ability in expressing a wide range of …

Recent studies focus primarily on low energy consumption or execution time for task
scheduling with precedence constraints in heterogeneous computing systems. In most …

Workflows have been used to represent a variety of applications involving high processing
and storage demands. As a solution to supply this necessity, the cloud computing paradigm …

Abstract Service-oriented computing has enabled a new method of service provisioning
based on utility computing models, in which users consume services based on their Quality …

The optimization of production systems has become increasingly important in manufacturing
industries due to the growing competition and market demands. One of the overriding …

The scheduling of a many-task workflow in a distributed computing platform is a well known
NP-hard problem. The problem is even more complex and challenging when the virtualized …

For applications in large-scale distributed systems, it is becoming increasingly important to
provide reliable scheduling by evaluating the reliability of resources. However, most existing …