Cloud computing evolved from the concept of utility computing, which is defined as the
provision of computational and storage resources as a metered service. Another key …

Over the last decades, the cooperation amongst different resources that belong to various
environments has been arisen as one of the most important research topic. This is mainly …

Job scheduling strategies have been studied for decades in a variety of scenarios. Due to
the new characteristics of the emerging computational systems, such as the grid and cloud …

Cloud computing has emerged as one of the latest technologies for delivering on-demand
advanced services over the internet. Various cloud providers have developed data-centres …

A computational Grid is a hardware and software infrastructure that provides dependable,
consistent, pervasive, and inexpensive access to high-end computational capabilities. Grids …

Over the last years, interoperability among resources has been emerged as one of the most
challenging research topics. However, the commonality of the complexity of the architectures …

We deal with the problem of preference-based matchmaking of computational resources
belonging to a Grid. We introduce CP–Nets, a recent development in the field of Artificial …

Hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies (HNPP) is an autosomal dominant
disease of peripheral nerves, characterized by recurrent focal neuropathies often with an …

Grid computing, in simplest terms, is distributed computations that have reached higher
evolution level. Grid scheduler is part of Grid. Scheduler generates an assignment of jobs to …

Resources in grid systems are heterogeneous, geographically distributed, belong to
different administrative domains and apply different management policies. The roles of …