Techniques predicting the type of diseases affecting plants in their lifetime will be of
immense help to agriculturists. This article throws light upon such techniques in the form of a …

One of the main issues with heuristics and meta-heuristics is the local optima stagnation
phenomena. It is often called premature convergence, which refers to the assumption of a …

With the acceleration of the Internet in Web 2.0, Cloud computing is a new paradigm to offer
dynamic, reliable and elastic computing services. Efficient scheduling of resources or …

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 …

Cyber–physical–social systems refer to new systems that involve a large number of Internet
of Things (IoT) devices connected through an interconnected network. These systems gather …

Services are delivered promptly and efficiently managed over the Internet using cloud
computing. Data and storage services are offered to users through cloud computing without …

A workflow consists of a set of tasks that are dependent on each other and scheduling these
dependent tasks to the virtual machines is one of the complex problems in cloud computing …

Task scheduling in cloud data centres is an optimisation problem that aims to minimise
power consumption and task makespan as well as ensures the quality of service delivered …

Cloud computing is one of the emerging fields in computer science due to its several
advancements like on-demand processing, resource sharing, and pay per use. There are …

A cloud computing system typically comprises of a huge number of interconnected servers
that are organized in a datacentre. Such servers dynamically cater to the on-demand …