A two-stage decomposition approach based on a novel multi-agent system (MAS) is
proposed for the distributed resource constrained multi-project scheduling problem …

Cloud computing is a type of parallel and distributed system consisting of a collection of
interconnected and virtual computers. With the increasing demand and benefits of cloud …

Cloud computing is a new computing paradigm which is gaining wide acceptance among
scientific fraternity in the recent years. The services of cloud could be effectively used for …

Cloud service providers, leasing resources from cloud vendors under the pay-per-use
service model, would want to minimize rental costs while meeting users' computing needs …

Strategic decision-making for sequential move games requires rationality and continuity of
rationality to guarantee maximum payoffs at all nodes/stages/levels. Rationality and …

The physical space and the cyber space are deeply coupled in Cyber-Physical Systems
(CPS). The traffic flows are constrained by heterogeneous delay constraints. In order to …

Performing scientific workflows on IaaS cloud may face the problem of uncertain task
runtime, meaning that tasks' real execution time are different from their given or evaluated …

Objectives Modern data centers serving web and mobile applications employ distributed
load balancers. The Join Idle Queue (JIQ) algorithm is ideally suited for load balancing in a …

The advent of cloud computing as a new model of service provisioning in distributed
systems encourages researchers to investigate its benefits and drawbacks on executing …

A deeper game-tree search can yield a higher decision quality in a heuristic minimax
algorithm. However, exceptions can occur as a result of pathological nodes, which are …