Scheduling is essentially a decision-making process that enables resource sharing among a
number of activities by determining their execution order on the set of available resources …

With the advent of cloud computing, organizations are nowadays able to react rapidly to
changing demands for computational resources. Not only individual applications can be …

Live virtual machine (VM) migration is a technique for achieving system load balancing in a
cloud environment by transferring an active VM from one physical host to another. This …

Estimation of the execution time is an important part of the workflow scheduling problem.
The aim of this paper is to highlight common problems in estimating the workflow execution …

Optimizing task scheduling in a distributed heterogeneous computing environment, which is
a nonlinear multi-objective NP-hard problem, plays a critical role in decreasing service …

Optimizing the scheduling of tasks in a distributed heterogeneous computing environment is
a nonlinear multi-objective NP-hard problem which is playing an important role in optimizing …

The characteristics of randomness, running style, and unpredictability of user requirements
in the cloud environment, brings great challenges to task scheduling. Meanwhile, the …

With the advent of Docker, it becomes popular to bundle Web applications (apps) and their
libraries into lightweight linux containers and offer them to a wide public by deploying them …

This paper presents a novel algorithm for task assignment in mobile cloud computing
environments in order to reduce offload duration time while balancing the cloudlets' loads …

In business process landscapes, a common challenge is to provide the necessary
computational resources to enact the single process steps. One well-known approach to …