Workflows are an application model that enables the automated execution of multiple
interdependent and interconnected tasks. They are widely used by the scientific community …

Energy conservation is a major concern in cloud computing systems because it can bring
several important benefits such as reducing operating costs, increasing system reliability …

Real-time systems are one of the most important applications of computers, both in
commercial terms and in terms of social impact. Increasingly, real-time computers are used …

Clouds are becoming an important platform for scientific workflow applications. However,
with many nodes being deployed in clouds, managing reliability of resources becomes a …

The significant growth in cloud computing has led to increasing number of cloud providers,
each offering their service under different conditions-one might be more secure whilst …

Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) is a well-known energy consumption
optimization technique in embedded systems and dynamically scaling down the voltage of a …

Fault-tolerant scheduling plays a significant role in improving system reliability of clusters.
Although extensive fault-tolerant scheduling algorithms have been proposed for real-time …

Workflow scheduling on the Grid becomes more challenging when multiple scheduling
criteria are considered. Existing studies provide different approaches to the multi-criteria …

As clouds have been deployed widely in various fields, the reliability and availability of
clouds become the major concern of cloud service providers and users. Thereby, fault …

Cloud computing is a rapidly growing technology that has been implemented in various
fields in recent years, such as business, research, industry, and computing. Cloud …