Server consolidation using virtualization technology has become increasingly important for
improving data center efficiency. It enables one physical server to host multiple independent …

Data centers are often under-utilized due to over-provisioning as well as time-varying
resource demands of typical enterprise applications. One approach to increase resource …

Cloud computing represents a major step up in computing whereby shared computation
resources are provided on demand. In such a scenario, applications and data thereof can be …

Given a set of machines and a set of Web applications with dynamically changing demands,
an online application placement controller decides how many instances to run for each …

In a typical large-scale data center, a set of applications are hosted over virtual machines
(VMs) running on a large number of physical machines (PMs). Such a virtualization …

Commodity clusters are used routinely for deploying service hosting platforms. Due to
hardware and operation costs, clusters need to be shared among multiple services. Crucial …

Virtual machine placement (VMP) is an important issue in selecting most suitable set of
physical machines (PMs) for a set of virtual machines (VMs) in cloud computing …

Task scheduling is a necessary prerequisite for performance optimization and resource
management in the cloud computing system. Focusing on accurate scaled cloud computing …

Virtual machine monitors are becoming popular tools for the deployment of database
management systems and other enterprise software. In this article, we consider a common …

There is a wide range of publications reported in the literature, considering optimization
problems where the entire problem related data remains stationary throughout optimization …