Cloud computing resource scheduling and a survey of its evolutionary approaches

ACM Computing Surveys

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Zhan, Zhi Hui ^a   Liu, Xiao Fang ^a   Gong, Yue Jiao ^a   Zhang, Jun ^a   Chung, Henry Shu Hung ^b   Li, Yun ^c  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ant colony optimization; Cloud computing; Evolutionary Computation; Genetic algorithm; Particle swarm optimization; Resource scheduling

Indexed keywords

ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION; BIG DATA; CLOUD COMPUTING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO); SCHEDULING; SURVEYS;

CLOUD-COMPUTING; COMPUTING RESOURCE; COMPUTING SERVICES; DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; PARTICLE SWARM; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION; RESOURCE-SCHEDULING; SWARM OPTIMIZATION;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84939803867     PISSN: 03600300     EISSN: 15577341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2788397     Document Type: Article

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