Multiobjective differential evolution for scheduling workflow applications on global Grids

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 21, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 1742-1756

  Khaled Ahsan Talukder, A K M ^a   Kirley, Michael ^a   Buyya, Rajkumar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Grid scheduling; Grid workflow scheduling; Multiobjective differential evolution; Multiobjective optimization; Pareto front; QoS

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; SCHEDULING;

DATA TRANSMISSION TIME; DETERMINISTIC ALGORITHMS; EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGIES; GRID SCHEDULING; GRID WORKFLOW SCHEDULING; MULTI-OBJECTIVE DIFFERENTIAL EVOLUTIONS; PARETO FRONT; QUALITY OF SERVICE PARAMETERS;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 68949161601     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: 15320634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1417     Document Type: Article

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