Cloud Computing has grown exponentially in the business and research community over
the last few years. It is now an emerging field and becomes more popular due to recent …

The massive growth of cloud computing leads to huge amounts of energy consumption and
release of carbon footprints as data centers are housed by a large number of servers …

Cloud computing is a new paradigm which provides subscription-oriented services.
Scheduling the tasks in cloud computing environments is a multi-goal optimization problem …

Abstract Service-level agreement (SLA) is a major issue in cloud computing because it
defines important parameters such as quality of service, uptime, downtime, period of service …

Cloud computing is one of the most successful technologies that offer on-demand services
through the Internet. However, datacenters of the clouds may not have unlimited capacity …

Cloud Computing has become a popular computing paradigm which has gained enormous
attention in delivering on-demand services. Task scheduling in cloud computing is an …

We address the problem of applying powerful pattern recognition algorithms based on
kernels to efficient visual tracking. Recently S. Avidan,(2001) has shown that object …

Efficiently scheduling a set of independent tasks on a virtual supercomputer formed by many
heterogeneous components has great practical importance, since such systems are …

With the advances in virtualization technology, cloud has become the most powerful and
promising platform for business, academia, public and government organizations. The cloud …

Task scheduling is one of the most difficult problems which is associated with cloud
computing. Due to its nature, as it belongs to nondeterministic polynomial time (NP)-hard …