Scheduling is a decision-making mechanism that allows resource sharing among several
activities by determining their order of execution on the available resources. In the …

A well-managed time-constrained workflow scheduling is needed for improving system
performance and end user satisfaction. Meanwhile, the intrinsic uncertainty in dynamic …

A workflow consists of a set of tasks that are dependent on each other and scheduling these
dependent tasks to the virtual machines is one of the complex problems in cloud computing …

Scheduling is a decision-making mechanism that enables the sharing of resources among
several activities by determining their execution order on the set of available resources. In …

The advent of distributed computing and mobile clouds made it possible to transfer and
distribute the heavy processes of complex workflows to the cloud. Managing and with the …

Cloud computing provides distributed computing resources such as servers, storage and
applications to the end users through data centers. The data centers are geographically …

Cloud computing services have provided numerous benefits for both large and small
businesses. However, limited knowledge exists about the factors that influence the adoption …

Workflow scheduling is the process of optimally assigning virtual machines to workflow tasks
subject to response time and cost consideration. Since such an optimization problem is NP …

In automobile manufacturing, it is a great challenge to select and execute the services with
the optimal value, cost and time out of complex processes. Most traditional algorithms only …

Information about the duration and the cost of a service are crucial to service provider and
clients. Since the cost of a service are dependent on how long a service can be provided or …