There is a great thrust in industry toward the development of more feasible and viable tools
for storing fast-growing volume, velocity, and diversity of data, termed 'big data'. The …

Over past few decades, families of algorithms based on the intelligent group behaviors of
social creatures like ants, birds, fishes, and bacteria have been extensively studied and …

Abstract Big Data Analytics (BDA) is increasingly becoming a trending practice that
generates an enormous amount of data and provides a new opportunity that is helpful in …

The rapid growth of emerging applications and the evolution of cloud computing
technologies have significantly enhanced the capability to generate vast amounts of data …

Live virtual machine (VM) migration is a technique for achieving system load balancing in a
cloud environment by transferring an active VM from one physical host to another. This …

Artificial bee colony algorithm (ABC) is a new type of swarm intelligence methods which
imitates the foraging behavior of honeybees. Due to its simple implementation with very …

Computationally intensive tasks of IoT applications can be offloaded to powerful devices in
the edge. Code offloading reduces energy consumption and increases performance …

Workflow scheduling is a key component behind the process for an optimal workflow
enactment. It is a well-known NP-hard problem and is more challenging in the …

Cloud computing provides substantial opportunities to researchers who demand pay-as-you-
go computing systems. Although cloud provider (eg, Amazon Web Services) and application …

Despite the dramatic improvements achieved in building energy-efficient electronic devices,
the amount of electricity consumed worldwide to power the global information technology …