Abstract Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is used in different research areas such as military,
industry, healthcare, agriculture, Internet of Things (IoT), transportation, and smart cities. The …

Workflow scheduling is one of the challenging issues in emerging trends of the distributed
environment that focuses on satisfying various quality of service (QoS) constraints. The …

Due to the rapid emergence of multi-drug resistant (MDR) bacteria, existing antibiotics are
becoming ineffective. So, researchers are looking for alternatives in the form of antibacterial …

Nowadays, large number of cloud-based techniques have been used in industrial control
systems (ICS), which also brings many security threats. The emergence of security-aware …

Energy efficient workflow scheduling is the demand of the present time's computing
platforms such as an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud. An appreciable amount of …

The application of machine intelligence in biological sciences has led to the development of
several automated tools, thus enabling rapid drug discovery. Adding to this development is …

Workflow scheduling is a long-studied problem in parallel and distributed computing (PDC),
aiming to efficiently utilize compute resources to meet user's service requirements. Recently …

Cloud computing has emerged as a high-performance computing environment with a large
pool of abstracted, virtualized, flexible, and on-demand resources and services. Scheduling …