Efficient task and workflow scheduling are very crucial for increasing performance, resource
utilization, customer satisfaction, and return of investment for cloud service providers. Based …

The rise of multi-cloud systems has been spurred. For safety-critical missions, it is important
to guarantee their security and reliability. To address trust constraints in a heterogeneous …

Nowadays, more and more computation-intensive scientific applications with diverse needs
are migrating to cloud computing systems. However, the cloud systems alone cannot meet …

Providing resources and services from multiple clouds is becoming an increasingly
promising paradigm. Workflow applications are becoming increasingly computation …

Recently, the multi-cloud environment (MCE) has increasingly become the preferred choice
of users. As with the cloud environment, efficient workflow scheduling in a MCE remains …

The provision of resources and services for scientific workflow applications using a multi-
cloud architecture and a pay-per-use rule has recently gained popularity within the cloud …

Cloud computing technology is favored by users because of its strong computing power and
convenient services. At the same time, scheduling performance has an extremely efficient …

One of the most difficult aspects of scheduling operations on virtual machines in a multi-
cloud environment is determining a near-optimal permutation. This task requires assigning …

Today, data-intensive applications rely on geographically distributed systems to leverage
data collection, storing and processing. Data locality has been seen as a prominent …

A framework for emerging innovations and the capacity to provide reliable cloud services in
cloud computing. The availability of “unlimited” computing capabilities to consumers on …