Optimising the data centres of large IT organisations is complex as (i) they are composed of
various hosting departments with their own preferences and (ii) reassignment solutions can …

Testing is crucial to ensure the quality of software systems-but testing is an expensive
process, so test managers try to minimise the set of tests to run to save computing resources …

Cloud computing faces many challenges which constitute research problems. The key
challenge is to achieve good resource management that will result in minimum energy …

Abstract Co-ordination of Inter-Cell Interference through scheduling enables
telecommunication companies to better exploit their Heterogeneous Networks. However, it …

The scale at which the human race consumes data has increased exponentially in recent
years. One key part in this increase has been the usage of smart phones and connected …

Machine Reassignment is a challenging problem for constraint programming (CP) and
mixed integer linear programming (MILP) approaches, especially given the size of data …

With the blooming of cloud computing, the demand for data centers has been rising greatly
in recent years. Their energy consumption and environmental impact has become much …

Optimising the IT infrastructure of large, often geographically distributed, organisations goes
beyond the classical virtual machine reassignment problem, for two reasons:(i) the data …

At a high level, data centres are large IT facilities hosting physical machines (servers) that
often run a large number of virtual machines (VMs)—but at a lower level, data centres are an …

Heuristic-based workload redistribution is the most commonly adopted solution to provide
enhanced service performance in large-scale Internet Data Centers (IDCs). However …