Information and communication technologies are permeating all aspects of industrial and
manufacturing systems, expediting the generation of large volumes of industrial data. This …

Smart mobile devices (SMDs) can meet users' high expectations by executing computational
intensive applications but they only have limited resources, including CPU, memory, battery …

Today, cloud computing has developed as one of the important emergent technologies in
communication and Internet. It offers on demand, pay per use access to infrastructure …

Edge computing is a new architecture to provide computing, storage, and networking
resources for achieving the Internet of Things. It brings computation to the network edge in …

In this study, the flexible task scheduling problem in a cloud computing system is studied
and solved by a hybrid discrete artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm, where the considered …

Cloud computing has now evolved as an unavoidable technology in the fields of finance,
education, internet business, and nearly all organisations. The cloud resources are …

An increasing number of enterprises have adopted cloud computing to manage their
important business applications in distributed green cloud (DGC) systems for low response …

Cloud computing becomes a promising technology to reduce computation cost by providing
users with elastic resources and application-deploying environments as a pay-per-use …

Cloud computing is a promising paradigm which provides resources to customers on their
request with minimum cost. Cost effective scheduling and load balancing are major …

One of the important steps in cloud computing is the task scheduling. The task scheduling
process needs to schedule the tasks to the virtual machines while reducing the makespan …