Task scheduling, which plays a vital role in cloud computing, is a critical factor that
determines the performance of cloud computing. From the booming economy of information …

Workflows are prevalent in today's computing infrastructures as they support many domains.
Different Quality of Service (QoS) requirements of both users and providers makes workflow …

Large-scale applications expressed as scientific workflows are often grouped into
ensembles of inter-related workflows. In this paper, we address a new and important …

To program in distributed computing environments such as grids and clouds, workflow is
adopted as an attractive paradigm for its powerful ability in expressing a wide range of …

Cloud computing is an emerging IT field. In cloud, service providers managed and provided
resources to users. Software or hardware can be used on rental basis; there is no need to …

Cloud computing has gained popularity in recent times. As a cloud must provide services to
many users at the same time and different users have different QoS requirements, the …

Cloud Service Providers are speedily becoming the target platform for scientific workflow
computations due to the massive possible and flexible pay-as-you-go pricing model …

Scheduling multiple large-scale parallel workflow applications on heterogeneous computing
systems like hybrid clouds is a fundamental NP-complete problem that is critical to meeting …

High quality of security service is increasingly critical for Cloud workflow applications.
However, existing scheduling strategies for Cloud systems disregard security requirements …

Efficient task scheduling improves offloading performance in mobile edge computing (MEC)
environment. The jobs offloaded by different users would have different dependent tasks …