Workflows are activities involving the coordinated execution of multiple tasks performed by different processing entities, mostly in distributed heterogeneous environments which a...
Esin Gokkoca, Mehmet Altinel, Ibrahim Cingil, Nesi...
In this paper we address a real world optimisation problem, the Rail Track Inspection Scheduling Problem (RTISP). This problem consists of scheduling network inspection tasks. The...
Resource scheduling in large-scale, volatile desktop grids is challenging because resource state is both dynamic and eclectic. Matching available resources with requests is not al...
Deger Cenk Erdil, Michael J. Lewis, Nael B. Abu-Gh...
The task management is a key point in grid applications and can highly influence their efficiency. There are many solutions that we can classify according to their centralizatio...
Suppose we have a parallel or distributed system whose nodes have limited capacities, such as processing speed, bandwidth, memory, or disk space. How does the performance of the s...