An extensive research has led to a general understanding of uncertainty issues in different
fields ranging from computational biology to decision making in economics. However, a …

With the recent emergence of public cloud offerings, surge computing-outsourcing tasks
from an internal data center to a cloud provider in times of heavy load-has become more …

Cloud computing has found broad acceptance in both industry and research, with public
cloud offerings now often used in conjunction with privately owned infrastructure. Technical …

In this paper a method for estimating task execution times is presented, in order to facilitate
dynamic scheduling in a heterogeneous metacomputing environment. Execution time is …

In spite of extensive research of uncertainty issues in different fields ranging from
computational biology to decision making in economics, a study of uncertainty for cloud …

The introduction of workflow in cloud computing has afforded a new and efficient way to
tackle large-scale applications. As an NP-hard problem, how to schedule cloud workflows …

Modern enterprise data warehouses have complex workloads that are notoriously difficult to
manage. One of the key pieces to managing workloads is an estimate of how long a query …

These days, more and more web are converting into mobile devices such as the internet of
things (IoT). These applications are distributed in nature and installed on mobile and servers …

Specialized processing units such as GPUs or FPGAs provide great opportunities to speed
up database operations by exploiting parallelism and relieving the CPU. However …

Today, many commercial and private cloud computing providers offer resources for leasing
under the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) paradigm. Although an abundance of …