Thanks to advances in wide-area network technologies and the low cost of computing
resources, Grid computing came into being and is currently an active research area. One …

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 …

The advent of Cloud computing as a new model of service provisioning in distributed
systems encourages researchers to investigate its benefits and drawbacks on executing …

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 …

Multi-tenancy is one of the key features of cloud computing, which provides scalability and
economic benefits to the end-users and service providers by sharing the same cloud …

In past decades, significant attention has been devoted to the task allocation and load
balancing in distributed systems. Although there have been some related surveys about this …

Workflow scheduling is one of the key issues in the management of workflow execution.
Scheduling is a process that maps and manages execution of inter-dependent tasks on …

Recently, utility Grids have emerged as a new model of service provisioning in
heterogeneous distributed systems. In this model, users negotiate with service providers on …

There is an increasingly pressing need, by several applications in diverse domains, for
developing techniques able to index and mine very large collections of time series …

Executing a large program using clouds is a promising approach, as this class of programs
may be decomposed into multiple sequences of tasks that can be executed on multiple …