Virtualization technology is the backbone of cloud systems, the fastest-growing energy
consumers, globally. It holds an imperative position in the resource management area by …

Nowadays, cloud computing is known as an internet-based modern area among emerging
technologies that brings up an environment, in which computing resources such as …

As the cloud data centers size increases, the number of virtual machines (VMs) grows
speedily. Application requests are served by VMs be located in the physical machine (PM) …

This paper formulates a virtual machine placement (VMP) problem, where the total power
consumption of physical machines (PMs) and switches and the total network bandwidth …

An increasing number of enterprises have adopted cloud computing to manage their
important business applications in distributed green cloud (DGC) systems for low response …

In the age of big data, companies tend to deploy their services in data centers rather than
their own servers. The demands of big data analytics grow significantly, which leads to an …

Swarm intelligence has become a hot research field of artificial intelligence. Considering the
importance of swarm intelligence for the future development of artificial intelligence, we …

Cloud federation is a new computing paradigm that has paved the way for cloud service
providers (CSPs) to offer their unused resources (virtual machine) to other CSPs when their …

Virtual machine (VM) consolidation is one of the key mechanisms of designing an energy-
efficient dynamic Cloud resource management system. It is based on the premise that …

Cloud computing enables the execution of various applications submitted by the users in the
virtualized Cloud environment. However, the Cloud infrastructure consumes a significant …