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 …

To program in distributed computing environments such as grids and clouds, workflow is
adopted as an attractive paradigm for its powerful ability in expressing a wide range of …

Cloud Computing has grown exponentially in the business and research community over
the last few years. It is now an emerging field and becomes more popular due to recent …

Generally, a parallel application consists of precedence constrained stochastic tasks, where
task processing times and intertask communication times are random variables following …

There is an increasingly pressing need, by several applications in diverse domains, for
developing techniques able to index and mine very large collections of time series …

Executing a large program using clouds is a promising approach, as this class of programs
may be decomposed into multiple sequences of tasks that can be executed on multiple …

A complex computing problem may be efficiently solved on a system with multiple
processing elements by dividing its implementation code into several tasks or modules that …

This paper addresses performance issues of resource allocation in cloud computing. We
review requirements of different cloud applications and identify the need of considering …

Cloud computing is one of the most successful technologies that offer on-demand services
through the Internet. However, datacenters of the clouds may not have unlimited capacity …

Network functions and service function chaining are prevalent in cloud and ISP networks. In
traditional software-based solutions, scaling up the capacity of these functions requires a …