Cloud computing has been widely adopted due to the flexibility in resource provisioning and
on-demand pricing models. Entire clusters of Virtual Machines (VMs) can be dynamically …

Cloud computing has grown to become a popular distributed computing service offered by
commercial providers. More recently, edge and fog computing resources have emerged on …

Many data and task parallel applications can be modeled as a Bag of Tasks (BoT), and
scheduled on distributed systems such as Grids, Clusters, and Clouds. We propose …

Reducing energy consumption has become an important task in cloud datacenters. Many
existing scheduling approaches in cloud datacenters try to consolidate virtual machines …

Purpose Cloud users can access services at anytime from anywhere in the world. On
average, Google now processes more than 40,000 searches every second, which is …

Cloud computing is a new generation of computing environment which delivers the
applications as a service to users over the internet. The users can select any service from a …

Advances in wireless sensor networks and positioning technologies enable traffic
management (eg routing traffic) that uses real-time data monitored by GPS-enabled cars …

Cloud computing technology offers many services using pay as per use concept where the
user gets to specify constraints such as the budget. Task scheduling algorithms are therefore …

It is challenging to execute an application in a heterogeneous cloud cluster, which consists
of multiple types of virtual machines with different performance capabilities and prices. This …

In many resource constrained web/cloud applications, users are given the ability to generate
different kinds of reports after selecting some criteria for each report to be produced. Such …