Cloud computing has become a buzzword in the area of high performance distributed
computing as it provides on-demand access to shared pool of resources over Internet in a …

We have seen a variety of on-line scheduling problems. Many of them are understood
satisfactorily, but there are also many interesting open problems. Studied scheduling …

Although more than 65% of the total cost in facility management (FM) comes from facility
maintenance management (FMM), there is a lack of efficient maintenance strategies and …

Delineating the tremendous growth in this area, the Handbook of Approximation Algorithms
and Metaheuristics covers fundamental, theoretical topics as well as advanced, practical …

Fog computing is receiving considerable attention in the research community to deliver
computing resources for Internet of Things (IoT) devices. With rapid advancements in IoT, it …

Several important decision problems on conjunctive queries (CQs) are NP-complete in
general but become tractable, and actually highly parallelizable, if restricted to acyclic or …

The effect of spatial diversity on the throughput and reliability of wireless networks is
examined. Spatial diversity is realized through multiple independently fading …

Many servers, such as web and database servers, receive a continual stream of requests.
These requests may require an amount of processing time that varies over several orders of …

We present distributed algorithms for multirobot task assignment where the tasks have to be
completed within given deadlines. Each robot has a limited battery life and thus there is an …

Technological advances in telecommunications, data networks and mobile compuling are
steadily increasing the bandwidth available for information systems at home as well as “on …