Abstract Internet-of-Things (IoT) refers to the massive network interconnection of objects
often equipped with ubiquitous intelligence employed to provide smart services to end …

Recently, there has been growing interest in distributed models for addressing issues
related to Cloud computing environments, particularly resource allocation. This involves two …

Global continuous optimization is populated by its implementation in many real-world
applications. Such optimization problems are often solved by nature-inspired and meta …

The high energy consumption of cloud data centers presents a significant challenge from
both economic and environmental perspectives. Server consolidation using virtualization …

Abstract The Virtual Machine Placement (VMP) problem is a challenging optimization task
that involves the assignment of virtual machines to physical machines in a cloud computing …

Cloud Computing is a widely adopted computing model that offloads the in-house
processing workloads to remote servers. In recent years, the adoption of cloud computing …

Cloud providers offer computing services based on user demands using the Infrastructure as
a Service (IaaS) service model. In a cloud data center, it is possible that multiple Virtual …

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 …

Cloud computing introduced a new paradigm in IT industry by providing on‐demand, elastic,
ubiquitous computing resources for users. In a virtualized cloud data center, there are a …

Cloud computing efficiency greatly depends on the efficiency of the virtual machines (VMs)
placement strategy used. However, VM placement has remained one of the major …