A genetic algorithm (GA) is an evolutionary algorithm inspired by the natural selection and
biological processes of reproduction of the fittest individual. GA is one of the most popular …

Cloud computing manages a variety of virtualized resources, which makes scheduling a
critical component. In the cloud, a client may utilize several thousand virtualized assets for …

This paper presents the planning of a hybrid renewable system with wind turbines and bio-
waste energy units along with stationary (ie, batteries) and mobile (ie, electric vehicles) …

With the enormous increase in energy usage by cloud data centers for handling various
workflow applications, the energy-aware cloud workflow scheduling has become a hot …

With the emergence of the big data age, the issue of how to obtain valuable knowledge from
a dataset efficiently and accurately has attracted increasingly attention from both academia …

Fog computing is a new computing architecture, composed of a set of near-user edge
devices called fog nodes, which collaborate together in order to perform computational …

Cloud computing is very popular because of its unique features such as scalability, elasticity,
on-demand service, and security. A large number of tasks are performed simultaneously in a …

Workflow scheduling is a key issue and remains a challenging problem in cloud computing.
Faced with the large number of virtual machine (VM) types offered by cloud providers, cloud …

Cloud computing is a new platform to manage and provide services on the internet. Lately,
researchers have paid attention a lot to this new subject. One of the reasons to have high …

Abstract According to the “No Free Lunch (NFL)” theorem, there is no single optimization
algorithm to solve every problem effectively and efficiently. Different algorithms possess …