Workflow scheduling is a key issue and remains a challenging problem in cloud computing.
Faced with the large number of virtual machine (VM) types offered by cloud providers, cloud …

Cloud Computing is becoming more and more popular for solving problems that need high
concurrency and a lot of resources. Many traditional areas of research choose to solve their …

A cloud workflow system is a type of platform service which facilitates the automation of
distributed applications based on the novel cloud infrastructure. One of the most important …

With the development of cloud computing, a growing number of applications are migrating to
a cloud environment. In the process, the real-time scheduling of workflows has gradually …

Workflows are adopted as a powerful modeling technique to represent diverse applications
in different scientific fields as a number of loosely coupled tasks. Given the unique features …

Cloud computing resources scheduling is significant for executing the workflows in cloud
platform because it relates to both the execution time and execution cost. In order to take …

In heterogeneous distributed computing systems like cloud computing, the problem of
mapping tasks to resources is a major issue which can have much impact on system …

Nowadays it is becoming more and more attractive to execute workflow applications in the
cloud because it enables workflow applications to use computing resources on demand …

Workflow scheduling is crucial to the efficient operation of cloud platforms, and has attracted
a lot of attention. Up to now, many algorithms have been reported to schedule workflows …

Workflow scheduling involves mapping large tasks onto cloud resources to improve
scheduling efficiency. This has attracted the interest of many researchers, who devoted their …