As computing infrastructure expands, resource management in a large, heterogeneous, and
distributed environment becomes a challenging task. In a cloud environment, with …

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 …

The rise of multi-cloud systems has been spurred. For safety-critical missions, it is important
to guarantee their security and reliability. To address trust constraints in a heterogeneous …

Recent remarkable growth of mobile computing has led to an exceptional hardware
upgrade, including the adoption of the multiple core processors. Along with this trend …

Recent years have seen the massive migration of enterprise applications to the cloud. One
of the challenges posed by cloud applications is Quality-of-Service (QoS) management …

Recent expansions of Internet-of-Things (IoT) applying cloud computing have been growing
at a phenomenal rate. As one of the developments, heterogeneous cloud computing has …

The number of service offerings in cloud manufacturing continues to grow, so that service
level agreement (SLA) within cloud manufacturing is increasingly used to ensure the …

The contradiction between the limited capability of lightweight Internet-of-Things (IoT)
devices and ever-increasing user demands is a fundamental and challenging problem in the …

Cloud computing has recently emerged as an important service to manage applications
efficiently over the Internet. Various cloud providers offer pay per use cloud services that …

Fog computing provides users with data storage, computing, and other services by using fog
layer devices close to edge devices. Tasks and resource scheduling in fog computing has …