Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) has been extensively explored to be applied as a vital tool
to enhance the capabilities of mobile devices, increasing computing power, expanding …

In past decades, significant attention has been devoted to the task allocation and load
balancing in distributed systems. Although there have been some related surveys about this …

To date, most of the existing bargaining models are designed for supporting negotiation in
only one market involving only two types of participants (buyers and sellers). This work …

Selfish behaviors of individual machines in a grid can potentially damage the performance
of the system as a whole. However, scrutinizing the grid by taking into account the non …

Game theory provides a mathematical tool for the analysis of distributed decision making
interactions between agents with conflicting interests. We apply game theory for distributed …

In the cloud context, pricing and capacity planning are two important factors to the profit of
the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) providers. This paper investigates the problem of joint …

Since Grid computing systems involve large-scale resource sharing, resource management
is central to their operations. Whereas there are more Grid resource management systems …

Virtualization technology is widely used in clusters, data centers and cloud computing
environments and enables easy resource allocation to realize the server load balance and …

Bolstering resource coallocation is essential for realizing the Grid vision, because
computationally intensive applications often require multiple computing resources from …

Due to their inherent limitations in computational and battery power, storage and available
bandwidth, mobile devices have not yet been widely integrated into grid computing …