With the rapid development of virtualization techniques, cloud data centers allow for cost-
effective, flexible, and customizable deployments of applications on virtualized infrastructure …

Cloud computing is a computing paradigm, where a large pool of systems is connected in
private or public networks to provide dynamically scalable infrastructure for application, data …

High-performance computing requires numerous virtual machines (VMs) to meet the
demand for services of the end-users. Such computation generates high intra-network traffic …

Cloud computing, with its immense potentials in low cost and on-demand services, is a
promising computing platform for both commercial and non-commercial computation …

Cloud service selection and ranking are two different but related important tasks in the realm
of cloud computing. Given the rapid growth in the number of available services offered by …

The increasing demand for virtual machine (VM) request is caused due to the increasing
number of users. Hence, the VM placement is considered as a critical task for attaining …

Conditional Preference Networks (CP-nets) have emerged as a prominent and intuitive
model for representing condi-tional preferences within the AI community. However, the …

With the rapid developments of virtualization techniques, cloud data centers have had
enabled cost effective, flexible, and customizable deployments of applications in virtualized …