Deploying applications in leased cloud infrastructure is increasingly considered by a variety
of business and service integrators. However, the challenge of selecting the leasing strategy …

Purpose-built clusters permeate many of today's organizations, providing both large-scale
data storage and computing. Within local clusters, competition for resources complicates …

In cloud computing, resource subscription is an important procedure which enables
customers to elastically subscribe to IT resources based on their service requirements …

This paper presents a novel VM allocation policy using the Eagle Strategy of Hybrid Krill
Herd (KH) Optimization technique to enhance the cloud service experience to internet users …

Much of the research has focused on performance evaluation and, particularly, the response
time of clusters in cloud computing. However, one important topic has hardly been …

Cloud systems are becoming attractive for many companies. Rather than over-provisioning
the privately owned infrastructure for peak demands, some of the work can be overspilled to …

Modern datacenter applications are concurrent, so they require synchronization to control
access to shared data. Requests can contend for different combinations of locks, depending …

In this paper, we address the resource and virtual machine instance hour minimization
problem for directed-acyclic-graph based deadline constrained applications deployed on …

Cloud computing is becoming a popular solution for storing data and executing applications
due to its on-demand pay-per-use policy that allows access to virtually unlimited resources …

An important feature of most cloud computing solutions is auto-scaling, an operation that
enables dynamic changes on resource capacity. Auto-scaling algorithms generally take into …