Throughout the centuries, nature has been a source of inspiration, with much still to learn
from and discover about. Among many others, Swarm Intelligence (SI), a substantial branch …

Cloud computing is a recently looming-evoked paradigm, the aim of which is to provide on-
demand, pay-as-you-go, internet-based access to shared computing resources (hardware …

Over the ages, nature has constantly been a rich source of inspiration for science, with much
still to discover about and learn from. Swarm Intelligence (SI), a major branch of artificial …

This paper introduces a new method called the Mayfly Algorithm (MA) to solve optimization
problems. Inspired from the flight behavior and the mating process of mayflies, the proposed …

Cloud computing is very popular because of its unique features such as scalability, elasticity,
on-demand service, and security. A large number of tasks are performed simultaneously in a …

Task scheduling is one of the major issues in cloud computing environment. Efficient task
scheduling is substantial to attain cost-effective execution and improve resource utilization …

Optimized scientific workflow scheduling can greatly improve the overall performance of
cloud computing. As workflow scheduling belongs to NP-complete problem, so, meta …

With the increasing of the scale of task or request and dynamic nature of cloud resources, it
gives significant issues of load balancing, resource utilization, task allocation, and system …

Accurate measurements of available water resources play a key role in achieving a
sustainable environment of a society. Precise river flow estimation is an essential task for …

Nowadays, cloud computing is an emerging technology due to virtualization and providing
low price services on pay-as per-use basis. One of the main challenges in this regard is how …