Currently, manufacturing enterprises face increasingly fierce market competition due to the
various demands of customers and the rapid development of economic globalization …

With the enormous increase in energy usage by cloud data centers for handling various
workflow applications, the energy-aware cloud workflow scheduling has become a hot …

With the ever-growing data and computing requirements, more and more scientific and
business applications represented by workflows have been moved or are in active transition …

Course timetabling is an ongoing challenge that universities face all around the world. This
combinatorial optimization task involves allocating a set of events into finite time slots and …

Cloud providers deliver heterogeneous virtual machines to run complicated jobs submitted
by users. The task scheduling issue is formulated to a discrete optimization problem which is …

Cloud computing, a technology providing flexible and scalable computing resources, faces a
critical challenge in task scheduling, directly impacting system performance and customer …

Nowadays, fog computing as a complementary facility of cloud computing has attracted
great attentions in research communities because it has extraordinary potential to provide …

Given the increase diversity of smart devices and objectives of the application management
such as energy consumption, makespan users expect their requests to be responded to in …

Hubs act as intermediate points for the transfer of materials in the transportation system. In
this study, a novel p-mobile hub location–allocation problem is developed. Hub facilities can …

Scheduling of scientific workflows on hybrid cloud architecture, which contains private and
public clouds, is a challenging task because schedulers should be aware of task inter …