Cloud computing is a commercial and economic paradigm that has gained traction since
2006 and is presently the most significant technology in IT sector. From the notion of cloud …

Cloud computing has become a buzzword in the area of high performance distributed
computing as it provides on-demand access to shared pool of resources over Internet in a …

Virtual machine placement (VMP) and energy efficiency are significant topics in cloud
computing research. In this paper, evolutionary computing is applied to VMP to minimize the …

High energy consumption of cloud data centers is a matter of great concern. Dynamic
consolidation of Virtual Machines (VMs) presents a significant opportunity to save energy in …

In cloud computing, high energy consumption and service-level agreements (SLAs) violation
are the challenging issues considering that the demand for computational power is growing …

This work proposes an energy-efficient resource provisioning and allocation framework to
meet dynamic demands of the future applications. The frequent variations in a cloud user's …

The virtual machine (VM) allocation problem is one of the main issues in cloud data centers.
This article proposes a new metaheuristic method to optimize joint task scheduling and VM …

Cloud providers offer computing services based on user demands using the Infrastructure as
a Service (IaaS) service model. In a cloud data center, it is possible that multiple Virtual …

Data centers are fundamental infrastructure for information technology and cloud services;
however, their very high rates of energy consumption are a problem. The placement of …

Energy consumption of massive-scale cloud data centers is increasing unacceptably. There
is a need to improve the energy efficiency of such data centers using Server Consolidation …