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 …

Task scheduling is a critical issue in distributed computing environments like cloud and fog.
The objective is to provide an optimal distribution of tasks among the resources. Several …

With the enormous increase in energy usage by cloud data centers for handling various
workflow applications, the energy-aware cloud workflow scheduling has become a hot …

With the ever-growing data and computing requirements, more and more scientific and
business applications represented by workflows have been moved or are in active transition …

Task scheduling, which plays a vital role in cloud computing, is a critical factor that
determines the performance of cloud computing. From the booming economy of information …

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 …

Large-scale applications of Internet of things (IoT), which require considerable computing
tasks and storage resources, are increasingly deployed in cloud environments. Compared …

With the proliferation of versatile mobile applications, offloading compute-intensive tasks to
the MEC/Cloud becomes a dramatic technique due to the limited resources and high user …

In Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Clouds, users are charged to utilize cloud services
according to a pay-per-use model. If users intend to run their workflow applications on cloud …

In recent years, cloud computing plays a crucial role in many real applications. Thus, how to
solve workflow scheduling problems, ie, allocating and scheduling different resources …