Multi-objective game theoretic scheduling of bag-of-tasks workflows on hybrid clouds

IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 29-42

  Duan, Rubing ^a   Prodan, Radu ^b   Li, Xiaorong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bags of tasks; Game theory; Hybrid clouds; Multi objective scheduling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPLEX NETWORKS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION; GAME THEORY; OPTIMIZATION; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS;

BAGS-OF-TASKS; HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTING SYSTEM; HYBRID CLOUDS; LARGE-SCALE APPLICATIONS; MULTI OBJECTIVE ALGORITHM; MULTI-OBJECTIVE GAMES; MULTI-OBJECTIVE SCHEDULING; QOS (QUALITY OF SERVICE);

SCHEDULING;

EID: 84916213053     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21687161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCC.2014.2303077     Document Type: Article

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