Task scheduling is a critical issue in distributed computing environments like cloud and fog.
The objective is to provide an optimal distribution of tasks among the resources. Several …

The use of metaheuristics is one of the most encouraging methodologies for taking care of
real-life problems. Bald eagle search (BES) algorithm is the latest swarm-intelligence …

Cloud-fog computing is a wide range of service environments created to provide quick,
flexible services to customers, and the phenomenal growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) has …

One of the deadliest diseases, heart disease, claims millions of lives every year worldwide.
The biomedical data collected by health service providers (HSPs) contain private …

The whale optimization algorithm (WOA), a biologically inspired optimization technique, is
known for its straightforward design and effectiveness. Despite many advantages, it has …

Usually, a large number of concurrent bag-of-tasks (BoTs) application execution requests
are submitted to cloud data centers (CDCs), which needs to be optimally scheduled on the …

Scheduling is an important issue in distributed computing platforms which decides the
allocation of resources to the user-submitted tasks to optimize certain scheduling objectives …

Bag-of-Tasks (BoT) scheduling over cloud computing resources called Cloud Bag-of-Tasks
Scheduling (CBS) problem, which is a well-known NP-hard optimization problem. Whale …

Recently, the demand of cloud computing systems has increased drastically due to their
significant use in various real-time online and offline applications. Moreover, it is widely …

HTTP adaptive streaming of video content becomes an integrated part of the Internet and
dominates other streaming protocols and solutions. The duration of creating video content …