Workflow scheduling algorithms for grid computing

J Yu, R Buyya, K Ramamohanarao - Metaheuristics for scheduling in …, 2008 - Springer
Workflow scheduling is one of the key issues in the management of workflow execution.
Scheduling is a process that maps and manages execution of inter-dependent tasks on …

Computational models and heuristic methods for Grid scheduling problems

F Xhafa, A Abraham - Future generation computer systems, 2010 - Elsevier
In this paper we survey computational models for Grid scheduling problems and their
resolution using heuristic and meta-heuristic approaches. Scheduling problems are at the …

Genetic algorithm based schedulers for grid computing systems

F Xhafa Xhafa, JS Carretero Casado… - … journal of innovative …, 2007 - upcommons.upc.edu
In this paper we present Genetic Algorithms (GAs) based schedulers for efficiently allocating
jobs to resources in a Grid system. Scheduling is a key problem in emergent computational …

[PDF][PDF] A discrete particle swarm optimization approach for grid job scheduling

H Izakian, BT Ladani, A Abraham… - … Journal of Innovative …, 2010 - isda05.softcomputing.net
Scheduling is one of the core steps to efficiently exploit the capabilities of emergent
computational systems such as grid. Grid environment is a dynamic, heterogeneous and …

Comparison of heuristics for scheduling independent tasks on heterogeneous distributed environments

H Izakian, A Abraham, V Snasel - 2009 international joint …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Scheduling is one of the core steps to efficientlyexploit the capabilities of heterogeneous
distributedcomputing systems and is an NP-complete problem. Therefore using meta …

Meta-heuristics for grid scheduling problems

F Xhafa, A Abraham - Metaheuristics for scheduling in distributed …, 2008 - Springer
In this chapter, we review a few important concepts from Grid computing related to
scheduling problems and their resolution using heuristic and meta-heuristic approaches …

A novel particle swarm optimization approach for grid job scheduling

H Izakian, B Tork Ladani, K Zamanifar… - … on information systems …, 2009 - Springer
This paper represents a Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm, for grid job
scheduling. PSO is a population-based search algorithm based on the simulation of the …

Bacterial foraging based hyper-heuristic for resource scheduling in grid computing

I Chana - Future Generation Computer Systems, 2013 - Elsevier
Grid computing is a form of distributed computing that co-ordinates and provides the facility
of resource sharing over various geographical locations. Resource scheduling in Grid …

Multi-level hierarchic genetic-based scheduling of independent jobs in dynamic heterogeneous grid environment

J Kołodziej, SU Khan - Information Sciences, 2012 - Elsevier
Task scheduling and resource allocation are the key rationale behind the computational
grid. Distributed resource clusters usually work in different autonomous domains with their …

[PDF][PDF] Efficient job scheduling in grid computing with modified artificial fish swarm algorithm

S Farzi - International Journal of computer theory and …, 2009 - academia.edu
one of the open issues in grid computing is efficient job scheduling. Job scheduling is known
to be NP-complete, therefore the use of non-heuristics is the de facto approach in order to …