Workflows are an application model that enables the automated execution of multiple
interdependent and interconnected tasks. They are widely used by the scientific community …

Cloud computing uses scheduling and load balancing for virtualized file sharing in cloud
infrastructure. These two have to be performed in an optimized manner in cloud computing …

Nowadays, security and scheduling are the most crucial aspects of each distributed real-
time application due to the rapidly enhanced use of such applications. This study presents a …

With the explosive growth of the Internet of Things (IoT), fog computing emerged as a new
paradigm, in an attempt to minimize network latency. Fog computing extends the cloud to the …

With the increasing functionality and complexity of Cloud systems, fault tolerance becomes
an essential requirement for tasks executed in Cloud systems, especially for the workflow …

Forecasting workflow activity durations is of great importance to support satisfactory QoS in
workflow systems. Traditionally, a workflow system is often designed to facilitate the process …

The most crucial aspect of distributed real-time systems is the scheduling algorithm, which
must guarantee that every job in the system will meet its deadline. In this paper, we evaluate …

In this paper, we investigate the improvement that can be gained in the performance of a
heterogeneous cluster dedicated to real-time jobs, by exploiting schedule holes with a novel …

With the explosive growth of big data, workloads tend to get more complex and
computationally demanding. Such applications are processed on distributed interconnected …

As large-scale distributed systems gain momentum, the scheduling of workflow applications
with multiple requirements in such computing platforms has become a crucial area of …