High quality of security service is increasingly critical for Cloud workflow applications.
However, existing scheduling strategies for Cloud systems disregard security requirements …

Traditionally, the" best effort, cost free" model of Supercomputers/Grids does not consider
pricing. Clouds have progressed towards a service-oriented paradigm that enables a new …

In the field of grid computing over optical networks, joint scheduling of computing and
network resources is an important issue. However previous research efforts were static …

Today's applications such as cloud computing and e-science involve the processing of
complex jobs consisting of several inter-dependent tasks executing on heterogeneous …

Abstract Thesis Statement: Cost-effective switching and spectrum utilization efficiency have
become critical design considerations in optical networks. This dissertation provides in …

This chapter presents a budget‐conscious adaptive scheduler, which minimizes many‐task
workflow (MTW) execution time within a certain budget. The proposed MTW scheduling …