The rapid growth of the cloud industry has increased challenges in the proper governance of
the cloud infrastructure. Many intelligent systems have been develo**, considering …

Despite the popularity and widespread usage of cloud computing, the cost of resources is
one of the most important issues in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) clouds. Therefore …

In this article, an extensive survey on optimal utilization of preemptible instances in cloud is
presented. Different techniques used in state-of-the-art research for efficient utilization of …

Cloud users can acquire resources in the form of virtual machines (VMs) instances for
computing. These instances can be on-demand, reserved and spot instances. Spot-priced …

Cloud computing as a fairly new commercial paradigm, widely investigated by different
researchers, and already has a great range of challenges. Pricing is a major problem in the …

Determining the true value of a bid received from a trading opponent with respect to different
conditions of the negotiation market is an important challenge in negotiation-based cloud …

Computational approaches contribute a significance role in various fields such as medical
applications, astronomy, and weather science, to perform complex calcula-tions in speedy …

In ubiquitous and mobile computing environments, most of user requests have timing
constraints. Therefore, for their execution, real-time scheduling mechanisms should be …

Stagnation of the negotiation-based cloud market refers to a condition of having negligible
or no successful (good) deals. Cloud market stagnation should be reduced as it has a …

Designing effective shill bidding detection and prevention mechanisms in a cloud auction
house is one of the main challenges of the cloud market. In this paper, one mechanism for …