Cloud computing is a recently looming-evoked paradigm, the aim of which is to provide on-
demand, pay-as-you-go, internet-based access to shared computing resources (hardware …

Large‐scale scientific problems are often modeled as workflows. The ever‐growing data
and compute requirements of these applications has led to extensive research on how to …

Task scheduling, which plays a vital role in cloud computing, is a critical factor that
determines the performance of cloud computing. From the booming economy of information …

More and more enterprises and communities choose cloud computing platforms to deploy
their commercial or scientific workflow applications along with the increasing popularity of …

Cloud workflow scheduling is significantly challenging due to not only the large scale of
workflow but also the elasticity and heterogeneity of cloud resources. Moreover, the pricing …

Cloud computing provides promising platforms for executing large applications with
enormous computational resources to offer on demand. In a Cloud model, users are …

Workflow scheduling is a key issue and remains a challenging problem in cloud computing.
Faced with the large number of virtual machine (VM) types offered by cloud providers, cloud …

In Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Clouds, users are charged to utilize cloud services
according to a pay-per-use model. If users intend to run their workflow applications on cloud …

Large-scale applications expressed as scientific workflows are often grouped into
ensembles of inter-related workflows. In this paper, we address a new and important …

Now-a-days, Cloud computing is a technology which eludes provision cost while providing
scalability and elasticity to accessible resources on a pay-per-use basis. To satisfy the …