Cloud computing infrastructure is suitable for meeting computational needs of large task
sizes. Optimal scheduling of tasks in cloud computing environment has been proved to be …

Clouds are becoming an important platform for scientific workflow applications. However,
with many nodes being deployed in clouds, managing reliability of resources becomes a …

A hybrid cloud integrates private clouds and public clouds into one unified environment. For
the economy and the efficiency reasons, the hybrid cloud environment should be able to …

As clouds have been deployed widely in various fields, the reliability and availability of
clouds become the major concern of cloud service providers and users. Thereby, fault …

With the widespread use of clouds, the reliability and efficiency of cloud have been the main
concerns of the service providers and users. Thus, fault tolerance has become a hotspot in …

The Job Shop Scheduling Problem (known as JSSP) is a wellknown and one of the difficult
combinatorial optimization problems and treated as a member of NP-complete problem …

Outsourcing jobs to a public cloud is a cost-effective way to address the problem of satisfying
the peak resource demand when the local cloud has insufficient resources. In this paper, we …

Nowadays, companies are more aware of an environmentally responsible use of
computational resources. Terms like Green Computing promote energy savings in large …

Job scheduling in utility grids should take into account the incentives for both grid users and
resource providers. However, most of existing studies on job scheduling in utility grids only …

Outsourcing jobs to a public cloud is a cost-effective way to address the problem of satisfying
the peak resource demand when the local cloud has insufficient resources. In this paper, we …