Typically, cloud computing includes the provisioning of dynamically scalable and virtualized
resources as services over the Internet. In the cloud environment, based on the user's …

Generally, cloud computing consists of providing virtualized and scalable resources as
services through the Internet dynamically. According to the costumers' requests, various …

Most of the optimization problems encountered in the real world are discrete type which
involves decision variables defined in the discrete search space. Binary optimization …

In recent years, several cloud services have proliferated that conspicuously result in
providing similar services having same functionality by multiple service providers, but …

Cloud computing is quickly becoming a common commercial model for software delivery
and services, enabling companies to save maintenance, infrastructure, and labor expenses …

This paper addresses the QoS-aware cloud service composition problem, which is known as
a NP-hard problem, and proposes a hybrid genetic algorithm (HGA) to solve it. The …

As a new service-oriented smart manufacturing paradigm, cloud manufacturing (CMfg) aims
at fully sharing and circulation of manufacturing capabilities towards socialization, in which …

In recent years, service-based applications are deemed to be one of the new solutions to
build an enterprise application system. In order to answer the most demanding needs or …

Cloud service composition builds new value-added services by combining existing single
services. However, because of the exuberant growth of cloud services and the varying …

In recent years, users are becoming increasingly accustomed to using the Internet to gain
software resources in the form of web services provided by information technology …