Task scheduling in cloud computing based on meta-heuristics: review, taxonomy, open challenges, and future trends

EH Houssein, AG Gad, YM Wazery… - Swarm and Evolutionary …, 2021 - Elsevier
Cloud computing is a recently looming-evoked paradigm, the aim of which is to provide on-
demand, pay-as-you-go, internet-based access to shared computing resources (hardware …

Cloud computing simulators: A comprehensive review

N Mansouri, R Ghafari, BMH Zade - Simulation Modelling Practice and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Nowadays, cloud computing is an emerging technology due to virtualization and providing
low price services on pay-as per-use basis. One of the main challenges in this regard is how …

Multi-objective workflow scheduling with deep-Q-network-based multi-agent reinforcement learning

Y Wang, H Liu, W Zheng, Y **a, Y Li, P Chen… - IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cloud Computing provides an effective platform for executing large-scale and complex
workflow applications with a pay-as-you-go model. Nevertheless, various challenges …

Neural network based multi-objective evolutionary algorithm for dynamic workflow scheduling in cloud computing

G Ismayilov, HR Topcuoglu - Future Generation computer systems, 2020 - Elsevier
Workflow scheduling is a largely studied research topic in cloud computing, which targets to
utilize cloud resources for workflow tasks by considering the objectives specified in QoS. In …

An effective cloud workflow scheduling approach combining PSO and idle time slot-aware rules

Y Wang, X Zuo - IEEE/CAA journal of automatica sinica, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Cost-aware scheduling systems for real-time workflows in cloud: An approach based on genetic algorithm and deep reinforcement learning

J Zhang, L Cheng, C Liu, Z Zhao, Y Mao - Expert Systems with Applications, 2023 - Elsevier
With the development of cloud computing, a growing number of applications are migrating to
a cloud environment. In the process, the real-time scheduling of workflows has gradually …

Multi-objective workflow scheduling in cloud computing: trade-off between makespan and cost

A Belgacem, K Beghdad-Bey - Cluster Computing, 2022 - Springer
Recently, modern businesses have started to transform into cloud computing platforms to
deploy their workflow applications. However, scheduling workflow under resource allocation …

[HTML][HTML] Cost and makespan-aware workflow scheduling in hybrid clouds

J Zhou, T Wang, P Cong, P Lu, T Wei… - Journal of Systems …, 2019 - Elsevier
Benefiting from rich resources and virtualization technologies, hybrid cloud has emerged as
a promising solution to processing large-scale scientific workflow applications for users in a …

Mobility aware blockchain enabled offloading and scheduling in vehicular fog cloud computing

A Lakhan, M Ahmad, M Bilal, A Jolfaei… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The development of vehicular Internet of Things (IoT) applications, such as E-Transport,
Augmented Reality, and Virtual Reality are growing progressively. The mobility aware …

Energy-makespan optimization of workflow scheduling in fog–cloud computing

S Ijaz, EU Munir, SG Ahmad, MM Rafique, OF Rana - Computing, 2021 - Springer
The rapid evolution of smart services and Internet of Things devices accessing cloud data
centers can lead to network congestion and increased latency. Fog computing, focusing on …