Cloud computing and emerging IT platforms: Vision, hype, and reality for delivering computing as the 5th utility

R Buyya, CS Yeo, S Venugopal, J Broberg… - Future Generation …, 2009‏ - Elsevier
With the significant advances in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) over the
last half century, there is an increasingly perceived vision that computing will one day be the …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of a company's suitability for the adoption of cloud computing and modelling its corresponding Return on Investment

SC Misra, A Mondal - Mathematical and Computer modelling, 2011‏ - Elsevier
Internet has become pervasive in our daily life and cloud computing is the newest offering as
service over the ubiquitous Web. Cloud computing has been considered as a much hyped …

Cost-driven scheduling of grid workflows using partial critical paths

S Abrishami, M Naghibzadeh… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2011‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, utility Grids have emerged as a new model of service provisioning in
heterogeneous distributed systems. In this model, users negotiate with service providers on …

Cost minimization for computational applications on hybrid cloud infrastructures

M Malawski, K Figiela, J Nabrzyski - Future Generation Computer Systems, 2013‏ - Elsevier
We address the problem of task planning on multiple clouds formulated as a mixed integer
nonlinear programming problem (MINLP). Its specification with AMPL modeling language …

Temporal dependency-based checkpoint selection for dynamic verification of temporal constraints in scientific workflow systems

J Chen, Y Yang - ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and …, 2011‏ - dl.acm.org
In a scientific workflow system, a checkpoint selection strategy is used to select checkpoints
along scientific workflow execution for verifying temporal constraints so that we can identify …

Meeting soft deadlines in scientific workflows using resubmission impact

K Plankensteiner, R Prodan - IEEE transactions on parallel and …, 2011‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a new heuristic called Resubmission Impact to support fault tolerant execution
of scientific workflows in heterogeneous parallel and distributed computing environments. In …

Service mediation and negotiation bootstrap** as first achievements towards self-adaptable grid and cloud services

I Brandic, D Music, S Dustdar - Proceedings of the 6th international …, 2009‏ - dl.acm.org
Nowadays, novel computing paradigms as for example Grid or Cloud Computing are
gaining more and more on importance. In case of Cloud Computing users pay for the usage …

Temporal dependency based checkpoint selection for dynamic verification of fixed-time constraints in grid workflow systems

J Chen, Y Yang - Proceedings of the 30th international conference on …, 2008‏ - dl.acm.org
In grid workflow systems, temporal correctness is critical to assure the timely completion of
grid workflow execution. To monitor and control the temporal correctness, fixed-time …

Workflow management for soft real-time interactive applications in virtualized environments

S Gogouvitis, K Konstanteli, S Waldschmidt… - Future generation …, 2012‏ - Elsevier
Many applications, especially the ones implementing multi-user collaborative environments,
fall within the context of soft real-time systems in which only small deviations from timing …

On the prevention of fraud and privacy exposure in process information flow

X Bai, R Gopal, M Nunez… - INFORMS Journal on …, 2012‏ - pubsonline.informs.org
Our work addresses internal information breaches that emanate from organizational
workflows. Information breaches are particularly piquant in organizational workflows, as the …