The proliferation of ubiquitous Internet of Things (IoT) sensors and smart devices in several
domains embracing healthcare, Industry 4.0, transportation and agriculture are giving rise to …

Throughout the centuries, nature has been a source of inspiration, with much still to learn
from and discover about. Among many others, Swarm Intelligence (SI), a substantial branch …

Over the ages, nature has constantly been a rich source of inspiration for science, with much
still to discover about and learn from. Swarm Intelligence (SI), a major branch of artificial …

Containers have emerged as the most promising lightweight virtualization technology in
providing cloud services due to its flexible deployment, portability, and scalability especially …

Over the last few decades, Internet of Things (IoT) has become the spotlight area of research
within the Industries and Academics. Primarily, IoT devices are characterized by small and …

In the 6G network era, energy-efficient computing means higher resource utilization and
lower energy consumption. The traditional computing model regards the network as a …

Cloud computing is one of the powerful engines driving global industrial upgrading and the
booming digital economy. However, the explosive growth of cloud data centers (DCs) has …

A microservice-based application is composed of a set of small services that run within their
own processes and communicate with a lightweight mechanism. Processing the …

The rapid development of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has led to the explosive
growth of industrial control data. Cloud computing-based industrial control models cause …

Virtual machine (VM) scheduling in a dynamic cloud environment is often bound with
multiple quality of service parameters; therefore, it is classed as an NP-hard optimization …