In cloud computing, multiple cloud providers can cooperate to establish a resource pool to
support internal users and to offer services to public cloud users. In this paper, we study the …

In the present cloud computing environment, the scheduling approaches for VM (Virtual
Machine) resources only focus on the current state of the entire system. Most often they fail …

The main challenge in a compute cloud system is to design a scheduling strategy for
heterogeneous computing resources with shared data banks. The cloud user's job arrives at …

Task scheduling is the core research content of cloud computing. It studies how to allocate
tasks between computing nodes, so that tasks are evenly allocated or the execution cost of …

Considering the proliferation in the number of cloud users on an everyday basis, the task of
resource provisioning in order to support all these users becomes a challenging problem …

With many providers in today's cloud market, it is crucial for each provider to offer an optimal
price policy which maximizes the final revenue and improves the competitive advantage …

In cloud computing, organizations can form cooperation to share the available resource to
reduce the cost. This is referred to as the multi-organization cloud computing environment. In …

We focus on the problems of cooperative virtual machine management of cloud users in a
smart grid environment. In such an environment, the cloud users can cooperate to share the …

Evolutionary games combine game theory, evolutions and system dynamics to interpret the
interactions of biological agents. It has been used in various domains to study the interaction …

Presently Cloud Computing is on high demand as it provides a way to reduce the cost of
building infrastructure through virtualization of resources. Virtualization of resources requires …