Due to the rapid growth of resource sharing, distributed systems are developed, which can
be used to utilize the computations. Data mining (DM) provides powerful techniques for …

With the growing popularity of shared resources, large volumes of complex data of different
types are collected automatically. Traditional data mining algorithms generally have …

In past decades, significant attention has been devoted to the task allocation and load
balancing in distributed systems. Although there have been some related surveys about this …

Although cloud computing is generally recognized as a technology which will has a
significant impact on IT in the future. However, Cloud computing is still in its infancy, many …

Cloud computing has emerged as a very flexible service paradigm by allowing users to
require virtual machine (VM) resources on-demand and allowing cloud service providers …

The problem of scheduling of tasks in distributed, heterogeneous, and multiprocessing
computing environment like grid and cloud computing is considered as one of the most …

Load balancing is the process of distributing customer tasks among multiple computing
resources, such as virtual machines (VMs), servers and networks. It is a major concern in …

Task execution of multiagent systems in social networks (MAS-SN) can be described
through agents' operations when accessing necessary resources distributed in the social …

In the complex software systems, software agents always need to negotiate with other
agents within their physical and social contexts when they execute tasks. Obviously, the …

This book is an attempt to bring closer the greater vision of the development of Social
Informatics. Social Informatics can be defined as a discipline of informatics that studies how …