To support the large and various applications generated by the Internet of Things (IoT), Fog
Computing was introduced to complement the Cloud Computing and offer Cloud-like …

Fog computing aims at extending the Cloud by bringing computational power, storage, and
communication capabilities to the edge of the network, in support of the IoT. Segmentation …

The multi-cloud environment (MCE) serves users on-demand by presenting miscellaneous
online web services. Each web service which is delivered by every cloud provider has its …

Performance sharing is a common technique to save energy and increase system reliability.
This paper considers a multi-state system with hierarchical performance sharing groups. The …

To fully exploit the potential of cloud computing, design and development of cloud
applications should be eased and supported. The OASIS TOSCA standard enables …

Shock models have been widely studied in reliability area, because many real phenomena
in reliability engineering can be depicted by the shock models. In general, the damage …

Process planning and shop scheduling are considered two independent subsystems in
traditional flexible manufacturing systems. For correlation and complementarity, integrated …

Automotive systems provide sophisticated functionality and are controlled by networked
electronic control units (ECUs). Nowadays, software engineers use component-based …

This article considers the problem of cyclic flow shop (CFS) scheduling problems in robotic
cells deploying several single and dual gripper robots. In this problem, different part types …

The allocation of software functions to processors under compute capacity and network links
constraints is an important optimization problem in the field of embedded distributed …