Due to the advancement of technology the datasets that are being processed nowadays in
modern computer clusters extend beyond the petabyte scale–the 4 detectors of the Large …

Cloud computing is a model for delivering information technology services in which
resources are retrieved from the internet through web-based tools and applications, rather …

Infrastructure as a Service pricing models for resources are meant to reflect the operational
costs and profit margins for providers to deliver virtualized resources to customers subject to …

Cloud computing aims to give users virtually unlimited pay-per-use computing resources
without the burden of managing the underlying infrastructure. We present a new job …

BACKGROUND The present disclosure relates generally to optimizing job schedules in a
computing environment and, more particu larly, to scheduling the execution of computational …

Pricing models for virtualized (cloud) resources are meant to reflect the operational costs
and profit margins for providers to deliver specific resources or services to customers subject …

Infrastructure as a Service pricing models for resources are meant to reflect the operational
costs and profit margins for providers to deliver virtualized resources to customers subject to …

Distributed (computing) systems come in various sizes and scale. They range from a single
workstation computer with several processors, a cluster of compute nodes (servers) to a …

ABSTRACT Large-scale Bag-of-Tasks (BoT) applications are characterized by their
massively parallel, yet independent operations. The use of resources in public clouds to …

In this paper, we address the problem of application scheduling on user mobile devices.
Given the fact that a vast number of applications may run both as in the foreground and the …