Cloud computing is one of the most commonly used infrastructures for carrying out activities
using virtual machines known as processing units. One of the most fundamental issues with …

Cloud computing is one of the most widely spreaded platforms for executing tasks through
virtual machines as processing elements. However, there are various issues that need to be …

Cloud computing is now dominated in the area of high performance distributing computing
and it provides resource polling and on demand services through internet. Therefore task …

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

Abstract The emergence of Cloud Computing as a model of service provisioning in
distributed systems instigated researchers to explore its pros and cons on executing different …

Workflows have been used to represent a variety of applications involving high processing
and storage demands. As a solution to supply this necessity, the cloud computing paradigm …

Traditionally, the" best effort, cost free" model of Supercomputers/Grids does not consider
pricing. Clouds have progressed towards a service-oriented paradigm that enables a new …

Nowadays it is becoming more and more attractive to execute workflow applications in the
cloud because it enables workflow applications to use computing resources on demand …

In heterogeneous distributed computing systems like cloud computing, the problem of
mapping tasks to resources is a major issue which can have much impact on system …

Workflows are adopted as a powerful modeling technique to represent diverse applications
in different scientific fields as a number of loosely coupled tasks. Given the unique features …