In the past few years, we have witnessed the proliferation of a heterogeneous ecosystem of
cloud providers, each one with a different infrastructure offer and pricing policy. We explore …

Cloud computing evolved from the concept of utility computing, which is defined as the
provision of computational and storage resources as a metered service. Another key …

Over the last decades, the cooperation amongst different resources that belong to various
environments has been arisen as one of the most important research topic. This is mainly …

Job scheduling strategies have been studied for decades in a variety of scenarios. Due to
the new characteristics of the emerging computational systems, such as the grid and cloud …

Cloud computing is a newly emerged computing infrastructure that builds on the latest
achievements of diverse research areas, such as Grid computing, Service-oriented …

Since power is one of the major limiting factors for a data center or for large cluster growth,
the objective of this study is to minimize the power consumption of the cluster without …

Cloud computing has emerged as one of the latest technologies for delivering on-demand
advanced services over the internet. Various cloud providers have developed data-centres …

The goal of Grid computing is to integrate the usage of computer resources from cooperating
partners in the form of Virtual Organizations (VO). One of its key functions is to match jobs to …

A cloud computing platform provides access to shared resources along with diverse services
including computation and storage to its users. The ubiquitous access to resources requires …

Inter-cloud is an approach that facilitates scalable resource provisioning across multiple
cloud infrastructures. In this paper, we focus on the performance optimization of …