The services are delivered to the user through a protocol interface of different resources.
Service delivery conferring on quality of service (QoS) mentioned in service level agreement …

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

Green cloud computing attracts significant attention from both academia and industry. One of
the major challenges involved, is to provide a high level of Quality of Service (QoS) in a cost …

Log files are generated in many different formats by a plethora of devices and software. The
proper analysis of these files can lead to useful information about various aspects of each …

Virtualization technology is the underlying element of cloud computing. Traditionally, cloud
computing has employed virtual machines to distribute available resources and provide …

With the advent of cloud computing and the availability of data collected from increasingly
powerful scientific instruments, workflows have become a prevailing mean to achieve …

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 …

Workflow scheduling concerns the mapping of complex tasks to cloud resources by taking
into account various Quality of Service requirements. In virtue of continuous proliferation in …

The evolution of cloud computing facilitates applications with varying demands to operate in
a virtualized environment. For instance, applications like the healthcare system, video …

Scientific workflow scheduling is one of the most challenging problems in cloud computing
because of the large-scale computing tasks and massive data volumes involved. A cloud …