Elasticity is a fundamental property in cloud computing that has recently witnessed major
developments. This article reviews both classical and recent elasticity solutions and …

Cloud computing environments allow customers to dynamically scale their applications. The
key problem is how to lease the right amount of resources, on a pay-as-you-go basis …

Virtual machine placement (VMP) and energy efficiency are significant topics in cloud
computing research. In this paper, evolutionary computing is applied to VMP to minimize the …

A disruptive technology fundamentally transforming the way that computing services are
delivered, cloud computing offers information and communication technology users a new …

Large-scale software systems are currently designed as distributed entities and deployed in
cloud data centers. To overcome the limitations inherent to this type of deployment …

Virtual machine placement is a process of mapping virtual machines to physical machines.
The optimal placement is important for improving power efficiency and resource utilization in …

Abstract Modern Cloud Data Centers exploit virtualization for efficient resource management
to reduce cloud computational cost and energy budget. Virtualization empowered by virtual …

Abstract In cloud computing, Virtual Machine (VM) placement is a critical operation which is
conducted as part of the VM migration and aimed to find the best Physical Machine (PM) to …

With increasing numbers of energy hungry data centers energy conservation has now
become a major design constraint. One traditional approach to conserve energy in …

Abstract The Virtual Machine Placement (VMP) problem is a challenging optimization task
that involves the assignment of virtual machines to physical machines in a cloud computing …